Distorted Thinking Quotes

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.'

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.