Psychosis Quote by Etienne de L'Amour

“He felt as if he were under an intolerable physical strain, as if his body were likely at any moment to fly to pieces.…

— Iris Murdoch

“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated…

— Joseph Heller

“He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.”

— Iain M. Banks

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and…

— Laura Elliot

“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist’s name on it, you’d better be prepared to witness…

— Jim Carroll

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the…

— Anais Nin

“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.”

— John Connolly

“The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong…

— Bram Stoker

“He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.”

— Jordan Castillo Price

“Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can…

— Philip K. Dick

“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused…

— Ayn Rand