“It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“What would it be like to have been locked up in one of those cells for weeks or months or even years,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“When life is this dull, you have to invent purpose. Collecting torn-up newspaper gives you a hobby, provides an anchoring intimacy with… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“One's very own free, unfettered desire, one's own whim, no matter how wild, one's own fantasy, even though sometimes roused to the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself. "The second sign of madness," I explain. "What's… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
“I have a suspicion - and hear me out, 'cause this is a rough one - I have a suspicion that the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When you need a shoulder to cry on, when you need someone to laugh with, when you need a companion... Whatever your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
“There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war.… — Nancy Young Copy Share Image
“My unfurling began with stillness. Instead of sprinting from terror or trying to karate chop the emptiness away, I set out a… — Clara Bensen Copy Share Image
“I used to believe everyone was a little crazy in his or her own way, that we were all allowed a moment… — Joyce Chua Copy Share Image
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without… — Jennifer Salaiz Copy Share Image
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Welcome to wonderland, they whisper as she swallows every last pill with a smile on her face. Where reality transitions into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust.… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
