Non Pathological Quotes

#1. I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#3. These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

Alfred Korzybski

#4. Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize it's all in fun, or all of the above.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#6. Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Alan Aldridge

#7. One of the critical skills in creative work is note-taking. Practically all the great geniuses of our culture, ranging from Leonardo to Edison, from Hemingway to Picasso, have been almost pathological note-takers.

Lauri Jarvilehto

#8. For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Charles Bernheimer

#9. My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

Paul Theroux

#10. The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Selena Roberts

#11. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Frank W. Putnam

#12. Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Alison Bechdel

#13. The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors.

Azar Nafisi

#14. There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Diablo Cody

#15. My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

Alan Garner

#16. The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

Stephen D. Krashen

#17. I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Robert Lowell

#18. I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.

Jacqueline Rose

#19. The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Rene Dubos

#20. I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.

C.S. Lewis

#21. Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Claude Bernard

#22. It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Mila Kunis

#23. 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

Dale Archer

#24. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world ...

Audre Lorde

#25. Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Alan Moore

#26. Exactly. It all just seems so arbitrary and political and" - come on, Blake, finish strong, puritanical, pathological, perforated, Panamanian - "weird.

Veronica Rossi

#27. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Elizabeth Bowen

#28. What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

John Naughton

#29. There cannot take place here a second existence, incomplete like the first, except by development of phenomena which are outside the normal consciousness; and this isolation of certain thoughts is again a result of the pathological retraction of the field of consciousness.

Anonymous

#30. Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

H.L. Mencken

#31. Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.

Dorothy Dunnett