Jeff Lindsay Quotes

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

I have a plan-to go mad.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

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 don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I've been insane from a very early age.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I teach that all men are mad.

We recognize incidents of metal illness, and at the same time we stigmatize people who suffer from it or seek help to deal with it.