Psychotic Quotes - Page 5

• Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.

  Lewis Black

  People, Midst, Palestinian

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• The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

  Julie Burchill

  Lying, Simple, Fleeting

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• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Leadership, Believe

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• They carried on sniping in the front seat, and Mae turned back to Jamie. "You doing okay?" she murmured. "Yes," said Jamie, a bit too earnestly. "I love you, Mae. Your hair is the color of flamingos! And I love Nick as well." He gazed soulfully in Nick's direction. "Sometimes when you are not being psychotic, you are quite funny. And you!" He regarded Seb for a long moment. "No, I still don't like you," he decided. "Maybe I need another drink." "I don't think so," Nick said.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Love You, Thinking, Hair

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Knowing

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Imagination, Saws

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• That was cool.' You're psychotic.

  Brandon Mull

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• I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

  Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, Wannabes, Delusion

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eight, People, Dating

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised. “Good,” I said. “Because you don’t want to see me be cross.” “Too late.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Thinking, Too Late

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• Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Essentials, Substance, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jul 26, 2012

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• I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possibly Milk Duds. “Are you psychotic?” I asked, realizing my plan to charm and bribe him if need be flew out the window the minute I opened my mouth.

  Darynda Jones

  Dad, Needs, Mouths

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

  Alec Baldwin

  Volcanoes, Self, Acting

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• Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.

  William T. Vollmann

  Girl, Mother, Self

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• You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

  Douglas Coupland

  Family, Different, Next

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Music, Mom, Mother

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.254, Macmillan

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

  "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.

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• Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too, believed that the psyche retained archaic vestiges, remnants of our earlier mental world. But for Freud these were a burden we were forced to repress. Jung instead would see them as a reservoir of vital energy, a source of meaning and power from which, through the over-development of our rational minds, modern mankind has become divorced.

  Gary Valentine

  Dream, Mind, World

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• Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Believe, Magic Moments, People

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in your own home.

  Rachel Vincent

  Flower, Home, School

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.100, Harlequin

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• ...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Tone, Hats, Speak

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't go alone," Lend said, his voice tight with concern. "I'll take Jack." "Oh, wonderful, take the other psychotic guy in your life to go find the first one.

  Kiersten White

  Voice, Guy, Firsts

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