Quotes About Psychology

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Premature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, "Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before."

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.