Psychotic Quotes

Quotations list about psychotic, delusional and demented citing William S. Burroughs, Jean Dubuffet and Gerard Way

  • A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

    — William S. Burroughs
    36
  • For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

    — Jean Dubuffet
    12
  • I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

    — Gerard Way
    9
  • It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.

    — Woody Allen
    4
  • Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average.

    His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

    — Sigmund Freud
    2
  • 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
    1
  • The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist.

    The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

    — Unknown
    1
  • 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 mennow in power in this countrywho 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
    0
  • So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic'.

    — Allen Ginsberg
    0
  • 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
    0
  • Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you.

    They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

    — Oliver Sacks
    0
  • 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
    0
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  • 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

    — Maurice Sendak
    0
  • Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

    — Neko Case
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

    — Mark Rydell
    0
  • I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

    — Kirstie Alley
    0

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