Elif Safak Quotes

My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.

I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.

Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.

I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

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

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.