Brett Gelman Quotes

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

It was either therapy or die.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

I think it's important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. They don't walk away from their extraordinarily, extraordinarily comfortable lives ... for no reason.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

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

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.