Emile Durkheim Quotes

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

To do that job you need to be mentally disturbed.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

I can't get it out of my head that I would like to play some kind of psychotic.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

I'm a lunatic.

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

Yes, and for the record, he thinks you’re insane, too. (Otto) Oh, goodie. But I guess that’s only fair since I think he’s psychotic. (Susan)

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.