Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.