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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. -- John Mellencamp
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. -- Sting
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. -- Charles Baudelaire
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. -- Elia Kazan
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. -- Max Heindel
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. -- Tiger Woods
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
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
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. -- Tennessee Williams
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. -- Paul Robeson
Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever. -- Mira Grant
Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears. -- Tim Sandlin
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates. -- Robert Anton Wilson
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. -- Carol Tavris
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. -- Jon Voight
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it. -- Tennessee Williams
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. -- Carol Tavris
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. -- Vance Packard
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! -- Bill Murray
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. -- V. S. Naipaul
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. -- Ade Edmondson
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. -- Ade Edmondson
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. -- Freeman Dyson
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. -- Richard Dawkins
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. -- Julius Rosenberg
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. -- Siri Hustvedt
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria. -- Cybill Shepherd
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way. -- Alexandra Daddario
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. -- Michael Sheen
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system. -- Sigmund Freud
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy. -- Rachel Cusk
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation. -- Marek Belka
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. -- Ulrich Beck
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
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
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought. -- Richard Dawkins
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence. -- Jeffrey Tate
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. -- Meg Rosoff
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. -- Jim McDermott
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that. -- James McAvoy
I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with. -- Ashley Jensen
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. -- Noam Chomsky
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. -- Jim McDermott
When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great. -- Eric Carr
But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? -- Milan Kundera
[Motherhood is] 'heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.' -- Olivia Wilde
At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria. -- Jerry Coleman
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria. -- Frank Herbert
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria. -- Tadashi Yanai
Art is our defense against hysteria and death. -- Theodore Roethke
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. -- Pierre Boulez
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children. -- Robby Takac
As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria. -- Michelle Goldberg
Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years -- Dennis Prager
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. -- Vance Packard
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria. -- Christopher Fry
Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria. -- Lynne McTaggart
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. -- Don DeLillo
Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today. -- Doug Casey
... I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science... -- Roger Helmer
Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one -- Dennis Prager
Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary. -- Alex Pareene
The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror. -- Howard Fast
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. -- Julius Rosenberg
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part. -- Darynda Jones
The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything. -- Julian Assange
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. -- Deepak Chopra
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. -- Milan Kundera
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. -- Derek R. Audette
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity. -- Terence McKenna
The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic. -- Jim Rogers
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. -- Henry Giroux
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. -- Bertrand Russell
I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion. -- Jim Crace
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. -- W. C. Fields
Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. -- Sarah Addison Allen
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred. -- Louise Bogan
One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria. -- Delia Ephron
Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. -- Paul Krugman
The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria. -- John Ashcroft
How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria? -- Greg Gutfeld
We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations. -- Roy Spencer
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement. -- Helen Lawrenson
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent. -- Anthony Daniels
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. -- Steven F. Hayward
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me. -- Karl Kraus
I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food. -- Melina Marchetta
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. -- Colin Wilson
And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations. -- Audie Cornish
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. -- Clifton Fadiman
I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil. -- Charles Baudelaire

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