“ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. ”
- Tiger Woods- Copy
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“ I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness… I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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“ When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. ”
- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf- Copy
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“ Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria. ”
- Eric Alterman- Copy
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