Mind Games Quotes

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“inner demons feed on mind games. trust me, keeping them satisfied with my own twisted way of thinking.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Because you don't spend so many decades in someone's house without knowing their game.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon.” “I should’ve had the choice.” “Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.”
― Carolyn Crane

“Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best.
And I usually am.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

“Mind Games: constantly bashing a brick wall with your head because you are giving all you’ve got and hardly receiving anything back (...) a series of deliberate actions or responses planned for psychological effects on you, typically for amusement or competitive advantage.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Gavin had thought tragedy suited her: a young Miss Havisham, wearing the moth-eaten tatters of her frayed hopes like a ravaged bride. She had thought at first that it was the chase he craved, or the thrill of conquest, but while both of those might have been true, it was her humiliation that got him off. Physical, psychological, sexual—his favorite games were the ones he played with her head.”
― Nenia Campbell, Escape

“The malignant narcissist has a split persona. They are like Jekyll and Hyde. One minute, they are sweet as sugar. The next minute, they fly into an uncontrollable seething rage! The narcissist loves playing mind games with you. They are clever to conceal who they are. Wherever there’s a narcissist, you can find a false mask plastered upon their face.”
― Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma

“It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“There is a difference between the irresistible impulse, and the impulse not resisted. And that is why the best thieves don't get caught.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument.”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“You know those pretty girls/ low-key kind of psycho who like to play really coy and enjoy playing the role of the victim just to be held by guys (but they're just "friends"), and when caught in their web of lies they change their voice intonation to a toddler?

Not My Cup of Tea!”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“It's emphasis of the same, a nemesis with my name, scheme created impressions of a mind game for everyone who over-seas. What a shame for those who haven't figured it out.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“He talks a lot. He thinks is he playing a game, but this is a game of my rules.”
― Oleksander Usyk

“It’s just fun to make men fall in love with you.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Your mind is a very powerful force. If you learn to tame it, you can achieve anything.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“But the mind is its own place, as Milton said, it can make a Hell of Heaven and a Heaven of Hell. How does it do that? By remembering, or forgetting. The only tricks a mind can play.”
― Sara Collins

“Cada uno esta donde cree que debería de estar, pero en realidad nadie sabe donde debe de estar. Si tu al menos sabes donde no debes de estar, quizás deberías estar...en otro lugar.”
― Samuel Romero Rodriguez, El horizonte del mar

“Some people are weapons that will put you out of your mind, unless you put THEM out of your mind.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I swear, lying there thinking about what they might decide to do next was worse than anything they did later.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main

“...from "greenhorns" you get what you want, from "veterans" you get what you deserve”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Maybe it’s only a mind game — what we hear more of, we think more of.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“You must think outside the box, Luna.”
― Teri Terry

“The bridge between a psychopath and a murderer is often drawn paper thin. There are psychopaths who twist you inside out with psychological torture, while others make it a reality, twisting you to pieces with blades of steel. They’re all geniuses in their own little fantasies. Some feel trapped and need to find a way through the reality of this harsh world. Some will never be free.”
― Remii Allan