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Quotes About Disorder

Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.
~ Joan Frances Casey
If you have more than a couple of kids, you're not parents—you're hoarders. And hoarding is a disorder, not a gift.
~ Joan Rivers
The universe gets more disorderly all the time.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Linda's uptight too, but in a disheveled way. Her wires are crossed and split and her energy flow is a mess.
~ Ann Napolitano
I have come back but disorder is not what it was. I have lost the trick of it! The innocence of it!… Anne, Anne, flee on your donkey, flee this sad hotel, ride out on some hairy beast, gallop backward pressing your buttocks to his withers, sit to his clumsy gait somehow. Ride out any old way you please! In this place everyone talks to his own mouth. That's what it means to be crazy. Those I loved best died of it— the fool's disease.
~ Anne Sexton
Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
~ David Perlmutter
Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.
~ Eva Rice
The garden looks wonderful, Mama, I would always say when we arrived back at the house. It's chaos, darling. I like chaos.
~ Eva Rice
Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
~ Jeff Lindsay
People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.
~ Robert Lepage
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~ Cyril Connolly
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
~ Adam McKay
Today, according to the NIMH, bipolar illness affects one in every forty adults in the United States, and so, before we review the outcomes literature for this disorder, we need to try to understand this astonishing increase in its prevalence.9 Although the quick-and-easy explanation is that psychiatry has greatly expanded the diagnostic boundaries, that is only part of the story. Psychotropic drugs—both legal and illegal—have helped fuel the bipolar boom.
~ Robert Whitaker
Capgras delusion
~ Robert Wright
He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
~ Robin Hobb
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
~ Robin Roberts
Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!
~ Robin Wayne Bailey
Right." Roic nodded. He glanced over Miles's growing array of medical attachments. "By the way, m'lord. Had you happened to mention your seizure disorder to the surgeon yet?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The goat herder was so unaccustomed to human company that he was short of words even in his inner speech. It was common knowledge that the Yugoslavs hated each other more than they could ever hate a foreigner or an invader. A guilty man wishes only to be understood, because to be understood is to appear to be forgiven. Atrocities are something nothing less than the vengeance of the tormented. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. Love delayed is lust augmented.
~ Louis de Bernieres
One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I'm thinking is maybe it's time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn't working.
~ Ron Rash
como ha dejado claro Virginia Woolf, cuando sufres un trastorno mental, lo primero que te es arrebatado es la palabra. Y con esto llegamos al núcleo abrasador de lo que llamamos locura. Estar loco es, sobre todo, estar solo. Pero estoy hablando de una soledad descomunal, de algo que no se parece en absoluto a lo que entendemos cuando decimos la palabra soledad.
~ Rosa Montero
Pero la vida es el desorden puro, el caos más insensato;
~ Rosa Montero
La gripe de los desequilibrios mentales
~ Rosa Montero