Derangement Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses. — Kenneth Rexroth
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a… — Philip K. Dick
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on… — Walter Lippmann
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an… — Dave Barry
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. — Louis Pasteur
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded… — John Avlon
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. — Jonas Mekas
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master… — Laird Barron
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because… — Christopher Bollen
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. — Tom Stoppard
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. — Jim Morrison
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the… — Patti Smith
Industrial manâ€”a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should… — Aldous Huxley
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But… — Margaret Atwood
I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer.… — Arthur Rimbaud
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses — Arthur Rimbaud

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21 authors contributed a total of 23 Derangement Quotes as follows: