Mental Turmoil Quotes

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I've never done an anguished painting.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I've always been a lunatic.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

God save me from myself.

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.