Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Wendy Liebman

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

Robert Jay Lifton

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Jacques Lacan

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

John Zorn

People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

Norman Mailer

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Martha Beck

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Marshall McLuhan

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Emo Philips

I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.

Jonathan Lethem

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Saul Bellow

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Lu Xun

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Martin Heidegger

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Albert Camus

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Albert Camus

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.

Simone de Beauvoir

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.