Hysteria Quotes - Page 6

• To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Believe, World, Lasts

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel”, p.94, Penguin

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• Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Regret, Drinking

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.76, Bantam

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• Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.

  Darynda Jones

  People, Left Behind, Behinds

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

  Jo Nesbo

  Real, Cancer, Exercise

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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

  Christopher Fry

  One Day, Bud, Calm

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.20, Oberon Books

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

  Henry Miller

  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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• Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

  Milan Kundera

  Wall, Dirty, Ideas

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• But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Self, Feelings

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• To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

  Thomas Ligotti

  Memories, Dark, Two

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• I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Community, Sometimes

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pain, Real, Believe

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

  Delia Ephron

  Movie, Important, Hollywood

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Running, Upset, Way

  "Alexandra Daddario Talks TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D, What Attracted Her to the Project, Preparing for the Role, PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. January 3, 2013.

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• I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

  RuPaul

  Men, Thinking, People

  Interview with T Lo, tomandlorenzo.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

  Max Heindel

  Cancer, Past, Epilepsy

  Max Heindel (2016). “Occult principles of health and healing”, p.96, Max Heindel

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• And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Loneliness, Eye, Heart

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• Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Self, Hands

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  Gus Van Sant

  Fate, Ideas, Drug

  "Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S". Book by Susan C. Boyd, 2010.

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

  Roy Spencer

  Reality, Age, Global Warming

  "What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up". www.express.co.uk. September 19, 2013.

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• Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to religion. The main epicenter of hysteria is not the scientific community but seems to be Hollywood.

  Doug Casey

  Community, Hollywood, Meteorology

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

  Doug Casey

  Today, World, Global Warming

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.88, Laissez Faire Books

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Men, Roots

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