Hysterical Quotes

• I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

  Bam Margera

  Friendship, My Best Friend, Cry

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2011

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

  Tom Berenger

  Stress, Tired, Pressure

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Freedom, Issues, Gold

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.89, Penguin

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• Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Order, Roots, Chaos

  William Irwin Thompson (1977). “Evil and world order”

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• Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

  Thomas Mann

  Levels, Miserable, Broke

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.317, A&C Black

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• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Passion, Order

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  Zakk Wylde

  People, Guy, Jericho

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• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  Kate Dickie

  Spiders, Cry, Turns

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• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

  Emma Thompson

  Hurt, Forgiving, May

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

  Michael Stipe

  Feet, Would Be, Six

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• Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

  River Phoenix

  People, Ironic, Moments

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

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• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

  Ian Fleming

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Men, Civilization

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• My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Organs, Unreliable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it.

  John Remsburg

  Support, Soldier, Humanity

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• I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

  Elton John

  Taken, Giving, Magazines

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

  Erma Bombeck

  Firsts, Frightened, Childbirth

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

  Bill Nighy

  Degrees, Easy, Notoriety

  "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doubt, Suffering

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

  Jenny Lawson

  Humble, Interesting, Forums

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• There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

  Michael Haneke

  Laughter, Mean, Two

  "No pain, no gain" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2001.

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