Psycho Quotes

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"
[...]
"'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'" I stop finish my J&B in one swallow.
"What does the other part of him think?" Hamlin asks tentatively.
"What her head would look like on a stick”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.”
― Sandi Lynn, Forever Black

“You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate.”
― Brent Runyon

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.”
― Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“If all of your friends are morons is it a
felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if
you blow their fucking heads off with a
thirty-eight magnum?”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“...вера, которая у каждого человека есть личная тайна...”
― Ludmila Ulitskaya, Даниэль Штайн, переводчик

“Die steinerne Verstocktheit barst, darunter kam die Fratze eines bis zum Irrsinn wütenden Kindes zum Vorschein”
― Stephen King, Misery

“I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and a lemon wedge in it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition. In evolutionary psychopathology, antisocial disorders are usually regarded as costly but potentially adaptive strategies rather than behavioral dysfunctions. Some authors have focused specifically on the evolution of psychopathy, and argued that this condition embodies a" cheater "social strategy designed to exploit other people's trust and cooperative behavior while avoiding reciprocation.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become damaged or dysregulated following periods of chronic hyperactivation. In other words, conditions that start as adaptive response may sometimes morph into dysfuntions along the way.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine over the past few millennia.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“In place of a process that 'others' distressed people, we can look for ways to 'belong' them. For sure they do belong, and the belonging begins on a vast scale. As a regular human being, having inherited protections that kept every one of their ancestors alive at least long enough to start a family, the patient can consider themselves well equipped to handle, in their own time and in their own way, whatever lies ahead. They possess a genius for survival that has accumulated over countless generations; in this real sense, all of their fore -fathers and mothers- are on their side.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“The main thing is to teach students psychology without making them psychos.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You are sick,” I snap through gritted teeth as I keep struggling against his tight grip around my wrists. “You’re a fucking psycho.” 

“Well, duh, baby. I thought we’d established that already.”
― Dolores Lane, Painting with Blood

“I told you, baby. I’ll never let you die. You’re my perfect little killer. My fucking soulmate,” I groan as I thrust deeper. “My filthy, certifiable psycho. There’s no one like you. And there’s no one in the universe who could take my cock as well as you.” 
”
― Dolores Lane, Painting with Blood

“The worst psychiatrist is the one who is a psycho.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov