WTF

"I can honestly say I do not want to be anyone else but me. It's not an easy gig. There's a lot of ups and downs and I really don't like the job most of the time but I am committed to it."

"For me resentment is just rooted in how I feel about myself. I don't like myself that much, I'm very hard on myself and I don't usually think I'm good enough at.......anything."

"It's just uncomfortable being me and I want to be comfortable being me."

Marc Maron, September 15, 2025

"And believe me I'm sick of myself going on about it. There's plenty of things that have changed for me and my life but there's a deep wiring that hasn't. I'm not even afraid of cutting the wrong wire at this point. The most it could detonate is a lifetime of welled up tears."

"You reach a certain age, usually pretty young, when you realize your parents are just people and they aren't going to help after a certain point, if they did at all, really. So, it's on you. And there's some part of my brain, emotionally, that's pretty stifled. I assume that's where a lot of my anxiety comes from."

Marc Maron, August 18, 2025

"I think gratitude is important but I don't engage it much and I should. I think there is some part of me that is afraid to be grateful, afraid of joy, afraid of happiness, afraid of peace because I assume it will all be crushed or taken away. I can't do it in a general sense so the exercise to me is identifying what those things could be attached to. What can't be taken away. Because by stifling them I take them away from myself."

"I choose to focus on my flaws and use them as a scourge as opposed to accepting them."

Marc Maron, August 11, 2025

I know some people who feel this way. Probably a lot more that I don't know, that also feel this way. There's one guy who I'm really close to, who I know very well, that feels these things overwhelmingly.

I don't know - should I sit down and talk to him? Is there a chance that I can help him adjust his thinking?

Maybe I'll give it a shot.

I just want him to get happy before he dies.