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Quotes About Psychopath

The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
~ Janet Malcolm
You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath. ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten
~ Kelley Armstrong
T'oublies un truc, cherie. C'est moi, le psychopathe du coin. - Clay Danvers
~ Kelley Armstrong
Preferirei chiedere un passaggio allo psicopatico del villaggio. Clay ha ghignato di nuovo. Dimentichi che sono io lo psicopatico del villaggio, darling .
~ Kelley Armstrong
The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Now they tell me a psychopath's a guy fights too much and fucks too much, but they ain't wholly right, do you think?
~ Ken Kesey
I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan
~ Jeff Lindsay
I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.
~ Greg Davies
Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths," said Mia. "Well," he said cheerfully, "since I'm both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain why we're such good friends.
~ Richelle Mead
Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
~ Richelle Mead
On a more personal level, it is very likely that at some time in your life you will come into painful contact with a psychopath. For your own physical, psychological, and financial well-being it is crucial that you know how to identify the psychopath, how to protect yourself, and how to minimize the harm done to you.
~ Robert D. Hare
A simple analogy here will help. The psychopath is like a color-blind person who sees the world in shades of gray but who has learned how to function in a colored world.
~ Robert D. Hare
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I'm just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.
~ James Norton
I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong.
~ Eliza Scanlen
Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
~ Lorraine Toussaint
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
~ Ralph Fiennes
The killing of Steven Tuomi may have been unintentional, but it whetted Dahmer's appetite for murder.
~ Robert Keller
Why don't you want to see your mom? Did she burn your dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?" "She wants to run my life," I explain. "What a bitch. It's like she thinks she's your mother or something." "She's a psychopath," I said. "It's complicated." "Psychopaths can't afford fur coats." "This one can.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath".
~ Erik Larson
Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or how, he is not real.
~ Erik Larson
Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers.
~ Angela Thirkell