Pathological Quotes (page 2)

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• life
• imagination
• drama

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. Meg Cabot

• health
• belongs
• absolutes

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche

• feeling
• noticeable
• elemental

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. Christopher Hitchens

• sometimes
• camera
• justly

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? Craig Ferguson

• liars
• hand
• saying

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. Alan Moore

• country
• stately
• pathology

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state. Bronislaw Geremek

• romantic
• small
• age

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. John Kenneth Galbraith

• freedom
• giving
• analysis

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. Sigmund Freud

• pollution
• importation
• importantly

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Rene Dubos

• technology
• progress
• hand

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein

• time
• humanity
• silence

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. Richard Powers

• art
• lies
• fun

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. Mason Cooley

• dark
• fear
• thinking

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. David Walliams

• exceptional
• except
• exception

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emile M. Cioran

• latin
• threat
• guards

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. Noam Chomsky