Psychologic Quotes & Sayings

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine. — Fady Joudah

The best mask is a face no one will remember — Jodi Meadows

I always wanted to be a sprinter. — Michael Johnson

Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience. — Alan W. Watts

I once heard this statement that women marry men hoping to change them, while men marry women hoping they'll never change. — Cindi Madsen

- What's with this obsession over fire?
- It draws you into drunken oblivion. — Ophelia Callens

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light. — Lucy Larcom

They would beg for elegant attention; yet fled any kind of confrontation. — Ophelia Callens

This isn't about seeking higher; it's about rebirth. — Ophelia Callens

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning. — Carl Jung

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse. — Nuruddin Farah

Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars. — Lloyd Jones

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and ... actually, no it's just those two things. — Colleen Houck

The other members of your party got here a few hours ago, but they weren't sure if you had made it, she says. — Veronica Roth

Life can turn on a dime. — Sandra Lee

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance. — Alfred Kinsey

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win. — Brett Hull

When you recognize that you are your own SoulMate, you feel at home and peaceful within yourself, no matter what is going on in your love life. — Annette Vaillancourt

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness. — Helene Deutsch