Hysteria Quotes

“The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.”

— Romain Gary

Hysteria, like controversy, is usually a manufactured phenomenon in Washington.

— Jonathan Capehart

“The USA is turning into a nation filled with insane masturbators.”

— Steven Magee

“You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.

— Michelle Goldberg

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

— Dennis Prager

“Love and hysteria are easily mistaken.”

— Galt Niederhoffer

“he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love”

— Milan Kundera

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

— Jim Rogers

I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.

— Tim Howard

“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”

— Judith L. Alpert

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

— Deepak Chopra

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

— Devin Townsend

While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.

— Kirsten Powers

“And I want you now I want you now I'll feel my heart implode And I'm breaking out Escaping now Feeling my…

— Muse

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are…

— Clifton Fadiman

But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before…

— Milan Kundera

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with…

— Richard Dawkins

I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal…

— Charles Baudelaire

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in…

— Charles Bukowski

There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at…

— Susan Sarandon

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of…

— Andy Cohen

I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places…

— Bo Derek

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that…

— Henry Adams

“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates…

— Michael Salter

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

— David Sedaris

“Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want…

— Anne Lamott

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and…

— Thomas Ligotti

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Thomas Mallon

I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded…

— Michael Salter

“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil…

— Wilbur Hale

“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain…

— Michael Salter

“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows…

— Michael Salter

“Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian…

— Haruki Murakami

“300.1 Hysterical neurosis This neurosis is characterized by an involuntary psychogenic loss or disorder of function. Symptoms characteristically begin and end suddenly…

— American Psychiatric Association

“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and…

— Richard P. Kluft