Top 100 Quotes About Demented
#1. Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Donald Hall
#2. I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented - but a Reader.
Helen Bevington
#3. Lies, it sounds demented to want a woman's lies. But, Olivia loves you with her lies. She lies about how she's feeling, how she's hurting, how she wants you when she tells you she doesn't. She lies to protect you and herself.
Tarryn Fisher
#4. I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing a damn fine imitation of a demented hooker doing an upright snow-angel as I try to protect the painting from damage.
Elle Casey
#5. I am not a morning person. Never have been - never want to be. As a matter of fact, I am vaguely distrustful of people who bound out of bed early like demented puppies. It's barbaric to wake up before 9:00 a.m.
P.C. Cast
#7. Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.
Lionel Tiger
#8. If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
Damien Chazelle
#9. At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.
Henry Miller
#10. We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.
John Ashbery
#11. He's the creation of my monstrosity, forever changed as a result of my demented soul. He fell in love with the devil when he fell in love with me.
E.K. Blair
#12. I hadn't realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I'd missed the demented little perv.
Jim Butcher
#14. You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.
Angie Sage
#15. Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood saints glared like demented spooks from every moldering wall.
Robert Stone
#16. Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Aldous Huxley
#17. In a demented, evolved way, lust fuels our motivation to love.
Haven Cage
#18. The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. You're demented."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"Okay, how about, we're unarmed!"
-Droma & Han
James Luceno
#20. As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
Martin Luther
#21. I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.
Julie Brown
#22. Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.
Valeria Luiselli
#23. I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Bill Paxton
#24. 717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!
Laline Paull
#25. The princess of perverted plants and the demented vampire have come to join us! How absolutely thrilling!
Nina Bangs
#26. I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Floyd Skloot
#27. When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.
Joan Juliet Buck
#28. My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.
Jason Flemyng
#29. Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit.
Louise Penny
#30. Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracted lights, creating an urban masterpiece of demented fury.
Jesikah Sundin
#31. My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
Poppy Z. Brite
#32. An outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts ... a camp for semi-demented adults ... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.
Sara Davidson
#33. A certain disheveled preacher in downtown Indianapolis shows them his .22 pistol under his corduroy jacket and asks can't they find a service for normal people, don't they see his flock is demented.
Smith Henderson
#34. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing
Cassandra Clare
#35. Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
Peter Baynham
#36. I smelled it before i saw it, and the same unicorn I'd met on a field trip with Jack pranced up, pleased as anyting to see me again. It wasn't mutual.
"It's so cute, isn't it?" Arianna said dreamily.
"Are we seeing the same creature? It's like a demented goat with a bone growth
Kiersten White
#37. The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.
Roberto Bolano
#38. Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!
Keiko Nobumoto
#39. For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.
Laura Furman
#40. A few shots of anti-traumatic serum might have saved him, but he was an unlisted and unwanted passenger. When that terrific surge came, he simply gasped, saw a demented whirling of bright lights against a bloody background, and fell limply against the bulkhead.
Malcom Jameson
#41. Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
Thomas Merton
#43. This drove home to me how barbaric our own medicine and our own customs are in the "civilized" world, where we put ill or demented people away and try to forget them.
Oliver Sacks
#44. In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.
Michael Crichton
#45. The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.
Neal Stephenson
#46. We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.
Johan Huizinga
#47. My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.
Lilith Saintcrow
#48. In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.
H.P. Lovecraft
#49. Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.
Gregory Petsko
#50. The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Walker Percy
#51. We are all of us - well, with the exception of people who have just fallen in love and those lucky demented few who see life's glass as three quarters full - we are just getting by.
Juliann Garey
#52. You look like a troll doll, a fucking demented troll doll.
Audrey Bell
#53. Is that your smile? Truly?" I pretended to shudder. "Looks more like a demented hyena.
Mia Sheridan
#54. Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird
Ali Smith
#55. The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.
Harlan Ellison
#56. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn't war the most demented activity ever invented?
Mary Pat Kelly
#57. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.
Salley Vickers
#58. So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never been before at 4.30 in the morning. And you know the weirdest thing of all? It all seemed so perfectly natural.
Colin Irwin
#59. I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
Stephen Dorff
#60. His hair is huge! ... Look! ... It's just sticking up at odd angles! Like a demented porcupine! - Desmond, about Fletcher's hair
Derek Landy
#61. From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
Andrew Jackson
#62. I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.
It was haunted.
The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.
D.J. MacHale
#63. I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . . I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end.
Helen Prejean
#64. He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.
Tony Vigorito
#65. Not one is dissatisfied ... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not
Walt Whitman
#66. A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest.
Ned Beauman
#67. No, hoplite fighting was more individual and more spread out - a matter of spear fighting, not a gigantic, demented rugby scrum.
J.E. Lendon
#68. DON'T - " screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them - "CALL ME COWARD!
J.K. Rowling
#69. I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents.
Bella Forrest
#70. It was time to leave. He was insufferable, had toilet problems, looked demented to begin with, and now he was the accomplice to a cat killer. Yet did I leave? No, I sat there. And I thought, What has happened to me? Why am I not rising up off the sofa? Why am I not leaving?
Augusten Burroughs
#71. No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.
Robert W. Chambers
#72. There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.
Vladimir Nabokov
#73. Free love,Ayaan knew, is an enchanting place haunted by demented women
Manu Joseph
#74. Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.
Vincent Price
#76. That demented animal didn't deserve a name.
Kat Falls
#77. I think they're having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. 'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.
Jana Oliver
#79. I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.
Oliver Sacks
#80. Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward.
Eoin Colfer
#81. From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.
Dean Koontz
#82. We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.
Alain De Botton
#83. Is it me, or did we just stop in the median and the driver got out?" Larry asks.
"He has to go peewee," Jade informs us.
"Good to know I'm not demented," Larry remarks. "Merely imperiled.
Daniel Asa Rose
#84. A locked door was suddenly opened in the back of my mind and a barrage of demented clowns came rushing out.
Amy Astorga
#85. In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler.
Meg Rosoff
#86. Yes, we'll go look," he replied sternly. "But you will stay with the rest of us and not dash around like a demented snow hare!
Erin Hunter
#87. How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?
C.R. Strahan
#88. One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
Deborah Moggach
#89. He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.
Jonathan Stroud
#90. National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
J. F. C. Fuller
#91. The fatter we are, the more likely we are to get cancer and the more likely we are to become demented as we age.
Gary Taubes
#92. She laughed. 'You seem pretty normal.'
'You've never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then spit it out of his mouth,' I said.
'I look like a demented carbonated fountain,' he deadpanned.
John Green
#93. What a strange demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.
Yoshida Kenko
#94. Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
Rebecca Stead
#95. You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Ralph Richardson
#96. I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Marilyn Manson
#97. He once again pointed to that creepy theatrical smile. There were way too many teeth there. It made him look positively demented.
Richard E. Gropp
#98. Mayweather was already a gargoyle for our era, a gleaming hood ornament on a demented limo running one red light after another, America's id.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
#99. Strange, her horoscope hadn't mentioned to beware of crazy kidnappers or demented desert sheikhs this week.
Lora Leigh
#100. This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
Albert Camus
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