Hysterical Quotes - Page 5

• A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.

  Rachilde

  Passion, Aunt, Men

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• Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.

  Fred Barnes

  Fall, Men, Fear Mongering

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• Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Thinking, Should

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hair, Risk, Wizards

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

  Stephen King

  Hot Flashes, Hot, Flash

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

  Sloane Crosley

  Phones, Cells, Tears

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

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• If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Laughter, Break, Right Now

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.189, Macmillan

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• In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

  Nick Cave

  Class, Sorrow, Pants

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Humans

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• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Fashion, Religious

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• Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Home, Rivers

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• Why would you do that? (Delphine) Why do you think? (Jericho) Because I’m a bossy hag and you’d rather be enslaved to a man you hate than deal with me. (Delphine) You know…you’re not funny. (Jericho) I think I’m hysterical. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie." I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?" For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Guy, Age, Way

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• It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter, but the helpless laughter of someone who's just heard something so funny they can't help but bubble over with it. She put her hands over her mouth and shook with it, the only sound was a low huffing that escaped through her fingers. There was another flash of blue fire from below. Denna froze midlaugh, then took her hands away from her mouth. She looked at me, her eyes wide, and spoke softly with a slight quaver in her voice, "Mooooo.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Laughter, Eye, Fire

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• I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

  Louise Rennison

  May, Faces, Excited

  "Louise Rennison's greatest quotes ever" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. “Your date appears to be hysterical,” Rene told me. “You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Coffee, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Evil, Optimism, Tragedy

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• An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Longing, Reason, Contradiction

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• Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

  Ezra Koenig

  Trying, Arguing, Express Yourself

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2010

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• In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

  June Jordan

  Suicide, America, Black

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• “Really, there are two types of people who go bowling. There are people who really, really love bowling. Then there are the people that are like: wouldn’t it be hysterical if we went bowling?”

  Jim Gaffigan

  Two, People, Bowling

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Fall, Passion, People

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• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  Sally Hawkins

  Brother, Dad, Inspiration

  "Happy-Go-Lucky Interview". Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.

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