Irrational Thoughts Quotes

Mr. [Ross] Perot's paranoia knows no bounds.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Well I'm a 5 year old at heart; I still think that there is a monster under my bed - and I'm not joking. It's pathetic, it's really not cute.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking - you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it's going to crash, I just know it's going to crash, so you're petrified.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

I am scared to answer questions. I do not think and answer. I say whatever comes to my mind.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.