Mental Strain Quotes

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

The Eubank fight was my hardest fight.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

Old age ain't for sissies

I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.