Demented Quotes - Page 3

• We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
  The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
  Are harvested by accredited experience
  Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
  And only oblivion remains in season.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Memories, Years

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dust, India, Extravagance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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• Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

  Bret Easton Ellis

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• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love You, Insanity, Secret

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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• I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense of our country's unique place in it. This is a foreign policy debate, and you cannot conduct foreign policy without a sense of what we are fighting for. And any President who can reduce the conduct of this country's affairs to a morning's attack by a bunch of demented fascists does not, in my view, understand what this great nation is all about.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Unique, Leader

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the office, I actually act quite demented the whole day. Like Monty Python. That's my favorite kind of humor. My assistants sometimes ask me to leave.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Office, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Passion, Eye, Wings

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Departed

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.387, Hachette UK

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  Home, House, World

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a morning person. Never have been - never want to be. As a matter of fact, I am vaguely distrustful of people who bound out of bed early like demented puppies. It's barbaric to wake up before 9:00 a.m.

  P. C. Cast

  Morning, People, Bed

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Divine by Choice”, p.75, LUNA

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• Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Trying, Boat, Sinking

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

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• The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry... Imagine if you saw George Clooney on the cover of a magazine every week with, is George broody? Is George going to adopt a baby? When is George going to have another kid? It would just seem weird. We'd seem demented, yet it's totally valid for women.

  Caitlin Moran

  Baby, Attitude, Kids

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Men, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented.

  Tracy Morgan

  Sex, War, Views

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• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

  Albert Camus

  Moon, World, Needs

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• It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

  Alan Moore

  Dc Comics, Laughing, Sides

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

  Vincent Price

  Kings, Children, Men

  "Fictional character: The Spirit of the Nightmare". "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

  Herta Muller

  Hands, Insanity, Raised

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• From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Anger, Inspire, Acting

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• I love it when you're demented like this.

  Melina Marchetta

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.

  Jana Oliver

  Orangutans, Arms, Demon

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• He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Sight, Lords And Ladies

  "The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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