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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

  Lillian Hellman

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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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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• 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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• Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Brother, Mean, Law

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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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• The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!

  Che Guevara

  New York, Heart, Cities

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• If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

  Joe Mantello

  Would Be, Gone, Theater

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• Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Memories, Powerful, Men

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