#psychotic

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#builds #castle #collects #lives #man

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#build #castles #cleans #live #mother

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#father #mother #psychotic #scariest #stories

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#alone #baby #bum #criminal #cute

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#i #i believe #like #most #neurotic

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#ego #every #extent #fact #greater

When I die, I plan to be laughing hysterically. ↗

— Minari Endou

#laughter #psychotic #death

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#confuse #illusion #only #psychotics #reality

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting. ↗

— Megan Fox

#i #i think #if i could #ill #interesting