Psychology Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“But the problem is that Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings never die: they’re buried alive and come forth later…

— Stephen R. Covey

There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people…

— Albert Camus

“shot of adrenaline that awakens us from our apathy,”

— Evan Osnos

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity…

— Susan Sontag

“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary manifestation of…

— Alina N. Feld

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom,…

— Nenia Campbell

“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”

— Ashim Shanker

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman