Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“when is murder a credit, a character reference, a matter of pride? That’s insane.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“In the words of a Persian sage: love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“What a journey...what a day...what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance...” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look… — Margaret Atwood 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
“I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our… — B. Justin Shier Copy Share Image
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I wanted to throw off the chains that bound me and give my entire being to someone. I wanted to know what… — Navessa Allen Copy Share Image
“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
“He that say madness isn't contagious has never spent his whole childhood locked up in a room without doors or windows where… — Claes Andersson Copy Share Image