Top 30 Quotes About Derangement
#1. The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Arthur Rimbaud
#2. I must say that I thought there was some derangement of his mental organization.
Candice Millard
#4. Do you have some sort of anti-derangement medication? If so, you might wish to take it.
Katie MacAlister
#5. In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
#6. There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
Philip K. Dick
#8. I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
Patti Smith
#9. It is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.
John E. Sarno
#10. The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
#11. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#12. My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#13. To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
Philip K. Dick
#14. The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#15. Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
Margaret Atwood
#16. Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
Tom Stoppard
#17. Aunt Fran lowered her voice. "Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain."
"Fran, talk plain, will you?"
"I'm talking about derangement."
"Don't be silly!"
She wispered. "And deviant behaviours.
Ami McKay
#18. Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.
Dave Barry
#19. I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
Quentin Crisp
#20. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
#21. What Lucie was hearing surpassed all understanding. A mass derangement, with the aid of bogus medical records and money under the table.
Franck Thilliez
#22. I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved ... But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
Karen Russell
#24. It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
John Avlon
#25. Was I deranged? Maybe. Yet, is it not derangement that guides us to seek out those we want to love in this world?
Roman Payne
#26. There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent
Djuna Barnes
#27. Industrial man - a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
Aldous Huxley
#28. There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
Jonas Mekas
#29. ...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.
William Gaddis
#30. To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.
Burne Hogarth
