Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness."
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Hysterical
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Thomas Mann
Novelist
"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical."
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!"
Jack Gould
Journalist
"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater."
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"An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations."
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"Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show."
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"My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ."
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"I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit."
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"It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash."
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"Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical."
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"A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?"
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"I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical."
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