Unhinged Quotes

#1. You have a wild-eyed look, my Beth. What do you
see?"
"Don't look at me," she cried, now utterly unhinged.
"Don't look into my eyes when you can see everything in them, and I am not able to look into yours and see anything!

Charlotte Featherstone

#2. Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. I don't know, Mitzi." Kai sighed and stared up at the sky as if it held her answers. Yeah right, for something like her, a demoness? "He makes me feel . . ."

Loved?" Mitzi offered.

Kai laughed. "Unhinged.

Brenda Steele

#4. On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

Joe Mande

#5. That was the moment at which he realized that he had possibly become unhinged. What did it matter? The whole world was unhinged.

Kate Atkinson

#6. Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

Lynn Coady

#7. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.

Michael Connelly

#8. Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Barton Gellman

#9. My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Karen Armstrong

#10. His mind had been unhinged by the blast of detonators, nights spent with corpses and by the superstitious incredulity of having killed so many white men.

Ben Okri

#11. God - unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both - speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God.

David Foster Wallace

#12. Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Michelle Malkin

#13. Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.

Idries Shah

#14. I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

Joan Didion

#15. Jeb [Bush] doesn't really believe I'm unhinged. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. It's been a total disaster. Nobody cares.

Donald Trump

#16. The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of humanity. They are unhinged sociopaths, far removed from what the Occupy Movement called the '99 percent.'

Henry Giroux

#17. I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

Edie Sedgwick

#18. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

Margaret Atwood

#19. I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

Marilyn Manson

#20. There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...

Douglas Kennedy

#21. People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

Corey Taylor

#22. Feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,

Bram Stoker

#23. Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Umberto Eco

#24. His dreams were getting more frightful - rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs - but he didn't know much about how to build a boat. The steam box was a start, even if he couldn't tell Annie, even though the line between faith and becoming unhinged seemed perilously narrow.

Rae Meadows

#25. No more stalemates because they thought her unqualified and unhinged.
No more tiptoeing around a room because women oughtn't to run. To shout. To rule.
And above all: no more blighted regrets.

Susan Dennard

#26. Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

Shannon Love

#27. As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

David Horsey

#28. Is this what love is? This painful, unhinged thing? This polarizing madness that swings from joyous to suffering in the blink of an eye? And if so, why do we let it consume us the way it does? Why do we so willingly surrender to its violent currents and unpredictable winds?

Chelsea Fine

#29. I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Mark Leyner

#30. You were heavily armed with faith, and that made your heart a castle. My heart, by contrast, is an abandoned house whose windows are shattered and doors unhinged. Ghosts play inside it, and the winds wail. As

Sinan Antoon

#31. I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#32. The problem with people like me who are emotionally unhinged is that we think with a tsunami of bad experiences flooding our brains. We think with insecurity, and raging pain, all triggered by what has come before. We see threats to us personally lurking around corners, curves, and right angles.

Cathy Lamb

#33. I'm here because I've lost my head. My mind is unhinged. That's what the doctors say.

A.G. Howard

#34. He made me feel unhinged ... like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

Chelsie Shakespeare

#35. You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

Nikita Gill

#36. My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

Maria Semple

#37. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

Gerry Abbey

#38. There's a chilling grimness behind his gaze, and I let myself acknowledge what I've been denying: In his own way, Morpheus is my knight, too. He just has more muddled motivations than Jeb - not always unselfish and honorable, but vigilant. I have to give him that.
-Unhinged, pg 252

A.G. Howard

#39. I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.

Holly Black

#40. For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Bram Stoker

#41. I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.

Richard Patrick

#42. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#43. If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

Claire Messud

#44. It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes.

Joe Pitkin

#45. It scares me to see someone so together come unhinged. It makes me think none of us are in control.

Chelsea Pitcher

#46. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

Dianne Harman

#47. What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible.

Greg Sestero

#48. Kira was on her way, unhinged on top of everything else.

David Lagercrantz

#49. Let beliefs fade fast and frequently, if you wish institutions to remain the same. The more the life of the mind is unhinged, the more the machinery of matter will be left to itself.

G.K. Chesterton

#50. ...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently on display don't make Trump look like he's a unique threat.

Mollie Hemingway

#51. He seemed to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think that he'd be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#52. Morpheus took flight and left me alone on the ground.
'Help me!' I cried up at him. My heart pounded in my chest, making it hard to breathe.
'I can't always be there to carry you.' The jewels under his eyes were a sincere blue.
- Unhinged, pg 88

A.G. Howard

#53. Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"

Michelle Malkin

#54. If it's danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#55. With only sixty men to hold off four hundred Americans, the British commander of the redoubt, a Major Campbell, surrendered to Laurens. Afterward, when an unhinged captain from New Hampshire threatened Campbell with his bayonet, Hamilton stepped between them, because rules were rules.

Sarah Vowell

#56. Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Paul Harris

#57. And then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the sound unhinged from its meaning.

John Green

#58. A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

John Avlon

#59. Remember that you are not obliged to meet anyone where they are emotionally, especially if where they are is toxic or unhinged. The more visibly upset you get, the more you perpetuate the negativity; the more rattled and distracted you are, the more you give the bullies what they want. Unless

Jennifer Romolini

#60. As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

Thomas Browne

#61. In unison, we stepped away from the group, sharing a secret little smile. Fuck, this girl makes me feel unhinged.

Christina Lauren

#62. You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

Taylor Swift

#63. Compassion has no place on the battlefield...

A.G. Howard