But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Love is like an incurable disease. No one who catches it wants to recover, and all its victims refuse a cure. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“It’s better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable,… — David Rosenhan Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
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