Quotes About Derangement

This determination to manage—to cope—to do as much unassisted as possible—is the Widow's prerogative. You might argue that it's a sign of her wish to appear to be—which is not the same as being—self-sufficient; or you might argue that it is a symptom of her derangement. But then, in the early minutes/hours/days of Widowhood—what is not, if examined closely, a symptom of derangement?

The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses.

There's a thin line between obsession and derangement, and I'm not at all sure the professor hasn't crossed it.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

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.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

She was discrete about writing in her notebooks … This too pointed to potential derangement. What had her majesty to note down? She never used to do it. And like any change in behavior of the elderly, it was readily put down to decay. Probably Alzheimer's.

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent

Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It's a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There's something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.

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.

To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn't matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see you feeling . You have no idea what . It's not about them . To be seen is the penalty.

Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

She was not, she thought, quite fool enough or mad enough to wish for bandits instead. Maybe that was the trouble; maybe she just wasn't crazed enough. True derangement stopped at no boundaries.

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.

One of the results of the Fall of Man is that imagination has got completely out of hand; and even one who does not believe in that "considerable catastrophe ", as Hilaire Belloc calls it, must at least admit that imagination plays a part in the mind's affairs totally out of proportion to its merits, so much out of proportion indeed as to suggest some longstanding derangement in man's nature.

annihilation. "Money flows toward short term gain," writes the geologist David Archer, "and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources. These tendencies are like the invisible hand of fate, guiding the hero in a Greek tragedy toward his inevitable doom." This is indeed the essence of humanity's present derangement.

Berman observes, for instance, that much of the world now blames Israel for the suicidal derangement of the Palestinians.

That would be just dandy. All we'd have to do is sit back and wait for them to wipe each other out. But that doesn't explain the message written in blood. That's the mark of a seriously deranged mind. An intelligent mind, but one without a conscience.

I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

I want to be a poet, and I am working to make myself a seer: you will not understand this, and I don't know how to explain it to you. It is a questioning of reaching the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. The sufferings are enormous, but one has to be strong, one has to be born a poet, and I know I am a poet.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

The Lincoln Project is the brainchild of embittered former GOP grifters who failed to anticipate the Trump phenomenon and were not talented enough to overcome their miscalculation. Trump derangement is the only occupation open to their washed-up careers, so they are doomed forever to tilt at windmills.