Pathological Quotes

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

Robert Lowell

#2. It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

Michael Warner

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

Dorothy Dunnett

#4. 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

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

H.L. Mencken

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Veronica Rossi

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. '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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Rene Dubos

#17. 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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Azar Nafisi

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

Alison Bechdel

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Alan Aldridge

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I have never said authoritarians are pathological

Bob Altemeyer

#32. Society remains unflagging in its almost pathological pursuit of material self-interest.

William Marsden

#33. Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature ... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

Edwin Muir

#34. Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

David Walliams

#36. The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Timothy Noah

#37. I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

Joss Whedon

#38. A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#39. Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Robert Breault

#40. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

#41. human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#42. looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological.

Peter Enns

#43. It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

Theodore Roszak

#44. More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else ... All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#45. Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Meg Cabot

#46. The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

John Piper

#47. Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Arthur C. Clarke

#48. The gods are alone, and when they stroll, by chance, on earth, they are pathological cases or buffoons, or histrions ... who are despised!

Rachilde

#49. Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Steve Blake

#50. Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

John Archibald Wheeler

#51. There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.

Christopher Hitchens

#52. I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs.

Harlan Ellison

#53. The pathological needs of the ego can only survive by creating contradictions to every thought. As you find a solution to one problem another annoyance emerges.

Christopher Dines

#54. I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#55. The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.

Vladimir Nabokov

#56. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#57. If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.

John Money

#58. I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

Jeremy Clarkson

#59. The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Kurt Andersen

#60. YOU'RE A PATHOLOGICAL TRUTH-TELLER, Lotto once said to her, and she laughed and conceded that she was. She wasn't sure just then if she was telling the truth or if she was lying.

Lauren Groff

#61. I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

Howard Rheingold

#62. I never lie, Mrs. Dutton. I'm a pathological truth-teller.

Lauren Groff

#63. As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Tina Turner

#64. I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease.

Kurt Vonnegut

#65. Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.

Stephen Hunter

#66. I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

Sally Field

#67. A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.

Abhijit Naskar

#68. In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius.

Walter Isaacson

#69. Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Scott Peterson

#70. I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

George Pattison

#71. A distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Arno Gruen

#72. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Mark Shields

#73. He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie
boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily out of need, but also for the pathological pleasure of killing a god.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#74. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

#75. I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

Neko Case

#76. Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

David Foster Wallace

#77. Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

Mary Lawrence

#78. Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

Joe Mande

#79. Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

Philip Roth

#80. I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#81. Fun biology fact: the neurochemical emotion known as "shame" originates in the gag reflex. Since I lack the latter, it explains why I have such a pathological lack of the former. Go ahead, ask Bill Nye, he'll tell you. It's science.

Hinata Yamimoto

#82. Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#83. Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Constantin Stanislavski

#84. Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

Moby

#85. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

Anthony Storr

#86. I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

Jenny Eclair

#87. But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine.

Paulo Coelho

#88. We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man ... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

Christopher Lasch

#89. Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

Emo Philips

#90. Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

David Cook

#91. I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

Tim O'Reilly

#92. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

Neal Shusterman

#93. My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.

Banana Yoshimoto

#94. People who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

Tom Clancy

#95. I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.

Marc Maron

#96. 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

#97. Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

Rebecca Scherm

#98. Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

Mel Lawrenz

#99. I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers and pathological liars ...

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#100. The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

Phillip Adams