Help Quotes

“The problem with needing people to love you despite who you are is that you end up subtly compromising for them and so internalize their prejudice and their rage. Rather than let them reject you, you allow all their nonsense to live inside you. You don't realize it but you agree to feel uncomfortable about this bit of yourself too. Just slightly. Just enough to keep them in your life. You settle for being mildly content with who you are rather than proud or thrilled, and any attempts at love will be thwarted by this refusal to love yourself completely.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“And I’ve since come to the realisation that he did what he could do, and that’s the love.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“We're all damaged in a way. We're all sort of damaged. Are you damaged? You look kind of damaged ...”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“Maybe the only thing to do while we're alive on this planet with no clear idea why, is to hold each other until we feel a bit ess troubled.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“I find myself so impatient for this time that we are in, the things that we consider acceptable, normal … People talk about the past, history like that was all ridiculous – ‘how could any of that have happened?’ I would like to be in the future now, so I could look back at this time and say things like: Do you remember when people got upset when their pets died? And then when other animals died they ate them? Do you remember when people drank milk from other species? Did they see cows feeding their calves and think, Yeah, that’s probably for me.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“You end up with a relationship, a mortgage, a family … So now when people say, ‘We’re having a baby’, I want to say, ‘Do you know who else had a baby? Everyone!’

All they’re doing is continuing the cycle of misery.

And surely at this time of catastrophic climate change, the least ethical thing you can do is create more human life. Next time someone announces to you the happy news that she’s pregnant, spit in her smug, glowing face!”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“Then a rabbi came over and I took a deep breath. I asked him what he gets up to when he's not hosting bat mitzvahs. He said he also does weddings and he suggested he could do my wedding. I was about to say, 'Oh, well, you won't because, you ”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“You just have to make plans, you have to make plans. If you live alone, and you don't make plans, here is what happens: you wake up ... And it just gets darker.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“There is a calm now to my relationship with my father. We stopped wanting to fix each other. And I've accepted that everything that happened couldn't have been any different. If it had been, I'd be an entirely different person so to want to alter the past would only be another form of self-hate.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“It used to be, you were born, married at twelve, by sixteen you were dead and now you have to keep doing new and endlessly impressive things because of the horror of being asked at parties, ‘What are you up to at the moment?”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“Beauty is too powerful. I feel mildly better now but I used to see pretty boys and just feel tired. I’d see someone and think, Oh great, now I have to think about you for ten years!”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“He was just another lovely and ridiculous human being. I must stop looking for a leader, nobody is outside of ridiculous.”
― Simon Amstell, Help

“In a supermarket you don’t think, ‘I need some potatoes; oh, I’d better avoid eye contact.’ You grab the potato, you bloody eat it and the only difference between a potato and a human being is the fear of rejection, that’s the only difference.”
― Simon Amstell, Help