Quotes About Psychology

You think you're fine. You think you get through it all right. And then you wake up sure the cold sweat on your face is blood, so real you can taste it.

They build narratives to make things make sense. To make whatever they're thinking of doing seem normal.

The expectation of an injury can hurt as much as the injury itself.

One study has found that people who tend to focus their minds more on what they are currently doing have longer telomeres than people whose minds tend to wander more.5 Other studies find that taking a class that offers training in mindfulness or meditation is linked to improved telomere maintenance.6

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.

The darkest prisons were those of the mind.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

Mary nevertheless marvelled at another otherwise strong man being reduced by a pretty woman. What was there about the male character that could produce great strength of personality, yet equally great weakness when it came to females?

Denial is a normal response to evil.

paraphrashed :People wear what they wear because of what goes on in their heads...it has nothing to do with their size or shape.

Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?

I momenti più crudeli vengono offuscati e distorti dal ripetersi dell'atto di ricordare, che per lei comportava il non ricordare esattamente come si era sentita perché il trauma era ormai assorbito: anch'esso era diventato un ricordo, privo della capacità che aveva di aggredirla all'improvviso.

Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?

While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Personality disorder? Given the extensive and widespread array of human emotions, why was anything a personality disorder?

They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.

Her son had married his mother, as all men—in some form or other—eventually do.

She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.

I care," Olive said. "I care because it says something about you. When you're attracted to crap, it says something about you.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.