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Tag Name "Derangement" (14)

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
George Bernard Shaw
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... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.
John E. Sarno
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I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
Karen Russell
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
Laird Barron
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To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire it proliferates like a virus.
Philip K. Dick
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
Tom Stoppard
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Arthur Rimbaud
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
Jonas Mekas
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Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
Kenneth Rexroth
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The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
Philip K. Dick
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
Aldous Huxley