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

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don’t have many sad days.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

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

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I always felt an outsider.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Hatred is settled anger.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

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

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.