Chaotic Mind Quotes

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage.

[Referring to Thaddeus Stevens:] His mind was a howling wilderness, so far as his sense of obligation to God was concerned.