…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

— Ray Bradbury

“You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing…

— Anne Sexton

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about…

— Richard Aldington

I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children.

— Robby Takac

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression:…

— David Sedaris

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

— Christopher Fry

“But Serena Williams is right, albeit not as funny as she might have been: his statement is not factually based. 700th? Where did that…

— The Guardian

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett.…

— Melina Marchetta

Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It…

— Max Nordau

In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic…

— Michael Salter

“It’s my fault!” And then I cross some line into hysteria and there’s a needle in my arm and the world slips away.”

— Suzanne Collins

The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from…

— Hortense Powdermaker