Clive Barker Quotes

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Consciousness is a disease.

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.