Regina Brett Quotes

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

There's a lot of insecurities and I think that's being human. There's highs and lows and it's about navigating through that.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.