Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

Mind over mattress.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.