Disorder Quotes - Page 18

• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

  Epictetus

  Shapes, Reason, Ought

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.51

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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• In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

  William Styron

  Struggle, Paris, Mind

  "Darkness Visible". Book by William Styron, 1990.

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

  Robert Owen

  Medicine, Mind, Body

  "The Book of the New Moral World". Book by Robert Owen, Part 3, 1845.

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• Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Mean, Order, Harmony

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.151, AK Press

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• The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

  Anna Pavlova

  Rights, English History, Looks

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• Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

  Pete Earley

  Giving Up, Character, School

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Tongue, Curb

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.154, University of Georgia Press

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• Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

  John Ashbery

  Home, Fire, People

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.2, Ardent Media

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• Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Personality, Symptoms

  "The South Bank Show", 2007.

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• The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Dark, Night, Cities

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• I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen." It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent.

  Carla Gugino

  Kids, Thinking, Names

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.

  David D. Burns

  Stars, Stress, Air

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• If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

  Wilfred Bion

  Order, Long, Connections

  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  William Styron

  Writing, Past, Judging

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

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• I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

  Richard Ford

  Brain, Obsessive Compulsive, Tourettes

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• I came, I saw, I was confused.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Confused, Saws

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

  Donny Osmond

  Knowing, Anxiety Disorder, Goes On

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• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Attention, Deficit, Dyslexic

  "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

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• Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

  Jon Ronson

  Childhood, Bipolar, Sometimes

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• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  Samantha Bee

  Party, Anxiety Disorder, Shy

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• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  Dale Archer

  Stress, Mind, Let It Go

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• Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

  Linwood Barclay

  Stars, Book, Writing

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