Quotes About Psychology

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

We dream every night, all the time.

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Ä°nsan, yüzü k?zaran ya da k?zarmas? gereken tek hayvand?r.

el origen secreto del humor no es la alegría sino la tristeza

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, una de las leyes fundamentales de la conducta humana, a saber: que para hacer que alguien, hombre o muchacho, desee alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir.

For some, especially young people, irritability is a more prominent experience than sadness in depression.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Some critics believe the house's mutations reflect the psychology of anyone who enters it.