Mental Imbalance Quotes

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

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.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

I think some people are mentally unstable, and I don't think I should be around them.

Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

The gap between first-class and international is mostly on the mental aspect.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.