And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“A black butterfly, confused and mad, Stung at my hand, thinking it was bad. My hand, not mad, just curious and sad,… — 3rd Degree Burn Copy Share Image
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Insanity is refusal to stay in the present as other people experience it. You see, insanity is really like getting caught in… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.”… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“love is the most down played disease in the world, only its down played because its the only disease tht isn't considered… — Rashaad Lee Copy Share Image
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called 'crazy,' and we are painted with such… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations,… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Recognizing our own craziness is, of course, the first step towards true sanity, Its the beginning our healing, peace, happiness and transcendence.… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“The venom clamours of a jealous woman, Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder’d by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He was going to burn them. He was going to burn them alive. He could do it. He would do it. He… — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
[Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up.… — Wale Copy Share Image
“Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods! He was human, and only a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image