Psychological Response Quotes

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.

I am not hurt.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

To laugh is proper to man.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.