“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach… — Laurence Oliver Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same?… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“And second, everyone is so weird , but they're all completely accepted. It's like, okay, you have a pumpkin head, and that… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“A sane person who dwells among the mad will become insane because they will act like the mad. One who cares and… — David Ssembajjo Copy Share Image
“Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he… — Nancy Scheper-Hughes Copy Share Image
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies.… — Mark A. Rayner Copy Share Image
All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“But I do know a kind of madness that lies low in the mind, half-buried in consciousness, which lives in parallel to… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots… — Molly Gloss Copy Share Image
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I can't fight off this feeling that was once so real for me. But it was only a dream. I could swair… — Jade Copy Share Image
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel… — Christopher Moore 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
It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said,… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
“When Everyone Are Doing Something Right And Only One Person Is Doing It Wrong , He Is Called Insane , And When… — Bonnie Copy Share Image
“Love is a viral vibration, infect others with it without regard, that it may spread epidemically, boosting the immunity of a humanity… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image