And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some… — Helen Slavin Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm,… — Bianca Stone Copy Share Image
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening… — J. Christopher Stevens Copy Share Image
“The group’s laughter echoed off the stained, plaster ceiling. I raised my beer, but before I clinked the bottles together, I challenged… — Cheryl R Cowtan Copy Share Image
“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his… — Laura Elliot Copy Share Image
“I know there is a thin silver line between the sane and the insane, and even in that realm of madness, there… — Julie Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Neurotic people often feel as if they are fakes, playing the social game while inwardly despising it, and have a sense of… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say,… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I am dreaming of winning the treble again. I will never forget how I felt after winning it in 2012-13. It was… — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“They were the Epperson sisters, and they had distinguished themselves in the minds of the Neelyites by going from reasonably normal to… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Dave Lindorff Copy Share Image
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
“In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
