They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis.… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the… — Denton Welch Copy Share Image
'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Okay I'll let you win this time just because youre my friend but if ever I change my mind you know Im… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
“I think my strength comes from being an insane drunk. Near death. Wanting death like a lover every day for years. My… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. “I can’t decide if it’s genius or madness.” “Maybe it’s a little bit of both,” said Nancy.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne… — Martial Copy Share Image
I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Wilber, the only people that I think are nuts are the ones who don’t put their necks out once in a while.… — Jay Ebben Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image