Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.

- Alex Pareene

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

- Charles Baudelaire

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

- Howard Fast

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

- John Mellencamp

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

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

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

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

- Richard Dawkins

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 exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

- Sting

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

- Siri Hustvedt

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

- Tiger Woods

I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.

- Tim Howard

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

- Tadashi Yanai

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Vance Packard