Psychotic Quotes - Page 2

• Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Jerk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.36, Penguin

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• In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

  George Ryan

  People, Drug, Majority

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• I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.

  Adam Sandler

  Trouble, My Family

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• Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  Ideas, Truth Is, Obscene

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

  Drake

  Commitment, Mistress, Want

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

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• Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

  Rob Zombie

  Growing Up, Years, Lists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Promise, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.132, Penguin

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• I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Odds, People, Perspective

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Ambitious, Lines

  "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Drama, Cells, Phones

  Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

  Scott Stapp

  Alcohol, Drug, Abuse

  "Scott Stapp: Bipolar Disease, Drugs Fueled 'Psychotic Break'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. May 13, 2015.

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Men, People

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

  Lana Del Rey

  Taken, Years, Creepy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan

  Judd Nelson

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

  Al Stump

  Baseball, Careers, Answers

  "Cobb: A Biography".

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• Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

  Dean Koontz

  Depression, Mental Illness, Paranoid

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.

  Terence Davies

  Father, Father Died, My Father Died

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• Great. I'm psychotic and sparkly.

  Rachel Vincent

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.37, Harlequin

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

  Irvine Welsh

  Crush, Eye, Soul

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House

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• I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

  Emma Forrest

  Mistake, Thinking, Neurotic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.

  Rob Zombie

  Trying, Sometimes, Realizing

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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