Psychosis Quotes

Psychosis Quote of the day

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

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.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

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.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

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 have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

So be careful when you bend over.

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.

All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.

Your disbelief cures nothing.

Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.