Psychological State Quotes

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

Maybe I am a bit mad.

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I feel a lot older than I am.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

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

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

I had a dream. I dreamed I was on this island, and there were two hotels, and one hotel was filled with dead people, and the other one wasn't, and I was in the hotel full of dead people.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.