Helen Fielding Quotes

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

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.

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.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

We're all controlled neurotics.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

Everyone reacts to things differently but just identifying in your own life, what works, seeing what doesn't, is as important for to you to talk about your own mental health.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?

The key to success is emotional stability.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that