Pathological Quotes

71 quotes by 62 authors

Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you… — Dale Archer
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the… — Richard Paul Evans
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. — H. L. Mencken
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. — Robert Lowell
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do. — Al Franken
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. — Sigmund Freud
I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three… — Jenny Eclair
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. — Khaled Hosseini
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children… — Marianne Williamson
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely… — Alan Moore
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What… — Philip Roth
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed… — Terry Eagleton
Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. — Meg Cabot
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon… — John Piper
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. — David Foster Wallace
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the… — Albert Einstein
And I, love, am a pathological liar, — Sylvia Plath
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological — Arthur C. Clarke

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