George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

It’s hard to absorb the horrors of the world on a daily basis.

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.

You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts to eat away at you. And if you don't work at yourself mentally or physically or spiritually, eventually you're going to be swallowed up by circumstance.

Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.