“He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was… — Edward John Trelawny Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale -… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind… — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“That my lunacy had been recognized was chastening enough, but the judge's gratuitous "fatuous" carried with it intimations that I was in… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about today's market anymore because nobody can make sense of what the market is. It's all over… — Kevin Lowe Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The few psychiatrists I respect always talk about people being mad. Use the short, simple, true words... "Mad" has the right sound… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image