Psychiatry Humor Quotes & Sayings

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Talking to yourself is okay. Answering back is risky. — Brian Spellman

We don't yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated. — Shannon L. Alder

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces. — Geraldo Rivera

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now. — Vanessa Ferlito

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink. — Brian Spellman

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. — Samuel Johnson

We of the South, — Robert A. Caro

I won't lie. Looking back is difficult - my memories are tinged with hollowness and shame. Still, I wasn't suicidal. I mean, sure. This last time, I did drink the poison - and maybe this sounds weird, but it just never occurred to me that I would really die from it. And I didn't. Not technically. But psychiatry, like alchemy, is a very inexact science. You'd think psychiatrists of all people would have a sense of humor about an occasional lapse in judgment like taking a few drops of poison. They don't. (Having just reread this note, I'm fairly certain the words are not exactly coming out the — W.C. Anderson

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal. — Tom Upton

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. — Nathaniel Lee

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be. — Liam Neeson

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof? — James Qualls

I threw flips and cartwheels straight across the grass, fuck my imaginary stitches, fuck whether Lexie had done gymnastics, I couldn't remember the last time I had been this drunk and I loved it. I wanted to dive deeper into it and never come up for air, open my mouth and take a huge breath and drown on this night — Tana French

Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II. — Gabrielle Zevin

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey? — Nenia Campbell

I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'. — Michael Wolf

He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948. — J.D. Salinger

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain. — Arthur Lynch

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilizers. When I don't they become agitated. I take their pills to calm them down. — Brian Spellman

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us. — Robert Klein