Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

... madness entered my veins.

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

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Such persons are windows through which one looks into terrible worlds.

I was a psycho in college.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

I'd describe 'Born to Kill' as a 'study in psychopathy', it's very much in the heads of our main protagonist, Sam, a young boy dealing with dark, twisted psychotic desires. It's also a coming-of-age story.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.