List Of Psychosis Quotes

Later I Would Come To Believe That Erotic Ties Were All A Spell, A Temporary Psychosis, Even A Kind Of Violence, Or At Least They Coexisted With These States.

When You Come, Please Be So Kind As To Check Your Neuroses And Psychoses At The Gate... Fans And Other Obnoxious Pests Would Do Well To Maintain Silence.

The Abused Child Goes On Living Within Those Who Have Survived Such Torture, A Torture That Ended With Total Repression. They Live With The Darkness Of Fear, Oppression, And Threats. When All Its Attempts To Move The Adult To Heed Its Story Have Failed, It Resorts To The Language Of Symptoms To Make Itself Heard. Enter Addiction, Psychosis, Criminality.

The Delusion That One's Sexual Pattern Is The Only Right Way To Be Is Probably The Single Most Common Sexual-psychosis Syndrome Of This Era, And It Is Virtually Almost Always The Victim's Fault. You Cannot Acquire This Delusion By Observing Reality.

The Luxury Of Being Half-asleep, Exploring The Fringes Of Psychosis In Safety.

Drugs Induce Paranoia And Psychosis In People Who Have Never Taken Any.

This Is A Serious, Serious Condition That Is Also Called Postpartum Psychosis. And That's Where, Literally, You Get So Bad That You End Up Either Hurting The Baby Or Killing Yourself.

My Safe, Safe Psychosis Is Broken. It Was Hard. It Was Made Of Stone. It Covered My Face Like A Mask. But It Has Cracked.

I Spent Months Searching For Some Secret Code Before I Realized That Common Sense Has Nothing To Do With It. Hysteria, Psychosis, Torture, Depression: I Was Told That If Something Is Unpleasant It's Probably Feminine. This Encouraged Me, But The Theory Was Blown By Such Masculine Nouns As Murder, Toothache, And Rollerblade. I Have No Problem Learning The Words Themselves, It's The Sexes That Trip Me Up And Refuse To Stick.

Marijuana Gives Rise To Insanity -- Not In Its Users But In The Policies Directed Against It. A Nation That Sentences The Possessor Of A Single Joint To Life Imprisonment Without Parole But Sets A Murderer Free After Perhaps Six Years Is In The Grips Of A Deep Psychosis.

I Am, Indeed, An Absolute Materialist So Far As Actual Belief Goes; With Not A Shred Of Credence In Any Form Of Supernaturalism—religion, Spiritualism, Transcendentalism, Metempsychosis, Or Immortality.

I Think When People Try To Use Their Art For Political Views, I Think They're Art Becomes Smaller, Less Interesting. And So For Me, As An Artist, I'm Trying To Speak About Things In A Universal Way And Not Be Pedantic Or Small-minded And Try To Convince Other People Of My Political Views. But Having Said That, Every Day I Live In Sort Of Complete Terror Because Of What I Read In The Newspaper And What Is Going On In The World. I'm Constantly, As I Think Many Of Us Are, Overwhelmed By The Sort Of, Mass Psychosis That's Occurring.