Ken Kesey Quotes

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

... too emotionally strung out.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

I'm out of control.

Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.