Psychotic Quotes

• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Creativity

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• The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Neurosis

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.141, Routledge

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• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Desire, Different

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• Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Problem, Psychiatrist

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• I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cute, Baby, Mean

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• I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

  Claudia Christian

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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• A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.

  Jake Johannsen

  Funny, Cows, Tone

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• But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

  Crispin Glover

  Differences, Differentiation, Lines

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

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• I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

  Gerard Way

  Psycho, Mcr

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• Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Neurosis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Drama, Cells, Phones

  Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Psychiatry, Psychiatrist

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

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• It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

  Rupert Everett

  Jealousy, Crazy, Psychosis

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• Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Jerk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.36, Penguin

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• Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

  Drake

  Commitment, Mistress, Want

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

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• Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Men, People

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Ambitious, Lines

  "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

  Lana Del Rey

  Taken, Years, Creepy

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

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• I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan

  Judd Nelson

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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