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

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

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.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I don’t have many sad days.

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

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

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

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.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

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

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

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Fashion breaks my heart.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Mind over mattress.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I think I’ve revived the costume-jewelry industry.

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.

Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I’m a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

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.

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.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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.

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

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.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

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

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.