No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
“In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.” — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Touch but don't stroke. Eat but don't lick. Desire but don't lust. Sanity is yesterday's child.” — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it.” — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
LOVE, A temporary insanity curable by marriage or the removing of the patient from the influences under which he or she incurred… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is no different than a heart condition. In the same way a faulty valve can cause harm to the body… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error.… — Forrest J. Ackerman Copy Share Image
“We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Listen!" it said. "We'll tell you the last, the most beautiful and secret story shut your eyes it is a very small… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.” — Menna Anwar Copy Share Image
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image