Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
People assume sadness based on questions about sad thoughts, projecting a perception onto my brain.
In plain terms
Others judge your state by how they ask questions.
What can you take from it?
Don't let questions define your feelings.

Where it applies

  • dealing with public perception
  • defining yourself

Putting it to work

  • own your narrative

Questions to consider

  • How do others define you?

Another view

It dismisses the reality that sad content can interest non-sad people.

More from Billy Corgan

  1. When I watch a puppet show, I'm not watching the puppets -- I'm trying to see who's pulling the strings.

    Permalink to quote #41
  2. The basic thing is just fuck everybody. It's that feeling where no one understands: 'Who the fuck are my friends? Fuck you. Fuck everybody. Fuck everything.' I…

    Permalink to quote #43
  3. Some people want to express...apathy with noise and brutality...It's the want to transcend all that, to find some deeper essence in life that drives me.

    Permalink to quote #40

Related quotes

  1. My best friend was at the grocery store standing behind these two guys in line, and one of the guys told the other that I was a man. He said, 'If you look clos…

    Megan MullallyMegan Mullally quote #16
  2. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me.

    Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison quote #24
  3. The observer is the observed.

    Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti quote #1