Glen Duncan Quotes

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

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.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

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.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

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

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

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

It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.