53 Quotes About Psychosis

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.

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

That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.

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

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

So be careful when you bend over.

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

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

We are all Believers (searching) for meaning,and Sexual (with desire) for a reason,and Crazy (by degrees) for Love