Deranged Quotes

• The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Insanity, Indication

  Leo Tolstoy, T. C. B. Cook (2004). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Liaison, Mentality

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• You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.

  Katie MacAlister

  Thinking, Wonderful, Refreshing

  Katie MacAlister (2010). “Sex, Lies, and Vampires”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It's not me but the world that's deranged.

  Haruki Murakami

  World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.119, Random House

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• You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  Walker Percy

  Life, Men, Ideas

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Differences, Healthy, Shade

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• The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

  Christopher Titus

  Normal

  "Titus". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

  Howard Hughes

  Millionaire, Paranoid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Opinion, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

  Sarah Waters

  No Patience, Terrible

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.203, Penguin

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• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  Alexei Sayle

  America, President, Different

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• But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

  Antonin Artaud

  Math, Understanding, Scientist

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

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• Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

  Aristotle

  Men, Two, Sick

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• Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

  Randy Orton

  Hero, Worst Nightmares, Sick

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• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

  Helen Fielding

  Ideas, World, Imbalance

  Helen Fielding (2012). “Cause Celeb”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born killer who's weirdly determined to succeed at his job, whatever his employment is. He's a mercenary and there's a high body count for him in this film [Never Go Back].

  Patrick Heusinger

  Jobs, Character, Determined To Succeed

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Government, Years

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Nerves, Why Not, Pressure

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• Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Mind, Brilliant

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• Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

  David Henry Hwang

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "M. Butterfly". Play by David Henry Hwang, February 10, 1988.

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• Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

  Chelsea Cain

  Running, Ideas, Serial Killer

  Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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