Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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

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.

It is important to remember yourself.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

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

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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 am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

To live is to think.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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

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.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.