Rob Thomas Quotes

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.

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

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

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

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

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'm going to have my moody times.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

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

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.