Mark Haddon Quotes

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

I think everybody's nuts.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Living, it's awful for me.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.