Quotes About Hysteria

wary of government-driven hysteria over potential pandemics as well as government agencies that have proven more beholden to corporate

He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea, Or feminine hysteria ...And I was his wife.

could spill over to hysteria as the hours and minutes ticked towards the edition deadline. The news editors had phones glued to their ears,

The reason why I believe Ethel's story is as important today as ever is to realize what can happen when fear, a forceful and blunt weapon in the hands of authority, turns to hysteria and justice is willfully ignored.

madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed

All ideals and all ambitions are a hysteria of prattling women posing as men.

The new 'Dunkirk spirit' is a kind of hysteria in which the ordinary vicissitudes of life (especially those involving Brits abroad among foreigners) are raised to the level of epic suffering.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

the leaves and stems would bush out in the sunlight and eventually bear whatever fruit was their genetic destiny. In this place, probably apples with antlers, thought Leo in mild hysteria, or potatoes with eyes that really winked at you.

Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.

Soon the key word to describe it is the adjective 'mass'. Thus there is mass culture and mass hysteria, mass tastes (or rather lack of taste) and mass paranoia, mass enslavement, and finally mass murder. The only hero on the world stage is the crowd, and the main feature of this crowd, this mass, is anonymity, impersonality, lack of identity, lack of a face.

In those times panics were common

No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The

Compreensivelmente, talvez, os fumegantes estavam sempre à beira da histeria. Mas havia uma questão do tipo ovo ou galinha nesse fato: será que eles entravam em pânico porque seus corpos não paravam de soltar fumaça, ou será que soltavam fumaça porque suas mentes estavam em constante estado de pânico?

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Te advierto que la ignorancia se convierte fácilmente en histeria.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little.

The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

Am meisten fürchten müssen wir uns vor der Raserei verängstigter Menschen.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.