Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll… — Plato Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Our families define us, sometimes in ways we cannot help or even know. I’m certain there are things about you that have… — Jacqueline Davis Copy Share Image
It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“You don’t know me well enough to be confident that I wouldn’t be able to live without you. I survived almost two… — Christine Celis Copy Share Image
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
So people think that being loved is happiness when others think that being loved just brings you madness — Shamaria Garrison Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself caught in a crazy system dreamed up by dangerous lunatics, you just do what you’re told.” — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
“People frequently claim to be going insane. But I've never heard somebody say they were going sane. Perhaps its because sanity isn't… — Kyra Davis Copy Share Image
“We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.” — Danielle Rohr Copy Share Image
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“It may have seemed like an insane thing to do at the time, but somehow...staying in New York would have been even… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and… — Phil LaMarr Copy Share Image
“We of the craft are all crazy,” Lord Byron, the high priest of crazies, wrote. “Some are affected by gaiety, others by… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right. -Sarah Lange” — Barbara Hall Copy Share Image
Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from… — Mike Wilson Copy Share Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image