Quotes About Catatonia

#1. The differential diagnosis of catatonia According to an old story, there are three different types of baseball umpires. The first says: "I call them lballs and strikes] as they are"; the second says: "I call them as I see them"; and the third says: "What I call them is what they become.

Max Fink

#2. Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

Richard Wilbur

#3. That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. With the use of a map, I could walk from Paris to Calcutta; without a map, I might find myself in Odessa. Well, if we had a similar 'map' of the human mind, a man could explore all the territory that lies between death and mystical vision, between catatonia and genius.

Colin Wilson

#5. Television is the most insidious form of escape known to man. It is the leading medication in the production of catatonia, cutting attention spans down to nothing, and as result will gut the sales of this book. And nobody gives a rat's ass because everyone's catatonic.

Tommy Walker

#6. Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.

Nancy A. Collins

#7. When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

Kate Zambreno

#8. A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Abraham Polonsky

#9. The ruin of the human race came by discrediting and doubting God's word to our first parents. "Hath God said?" was the fountain of all sin. "God hath said" is the foundation, therefore, of our restoration.

A.B. Simpson

#10. How nice
to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.

Debasish Mridha

#12. You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

David Brenner

#13. I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Daniel Logan

#14. I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Dorothea Lange

#15. The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#16. I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

Ray Stevenson

#17. If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

#18. I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

James Joyce