“So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain… — Venkatesh G. Rao Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Some people cannot understand other feelings. They don't even mind if that person is hurt or not. They are out of control… — Tracy Delos Santos Copy Share Image
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At times, I felt like an immoral stalker. I knew that I had become a monster, but love, madness and insanity are… — Ekamjit Ghuman Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!’ I said with surprising vehemence. ‘You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“My mind was no longer functioning on a rational level. For fuck's sake, who needed rational when they boarded a train to… — J.A. Saare Copy Share Image
I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you, Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If insanity is in repeating the same behavior while expecting different results, no less insane is the one that repeats the same… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work,… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image