Patrick White Quotes

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

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

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I started writing to reassure myself that I was still all here.