In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not… — Limmy Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had discovered that it was easier – far easier than any one could have supposed – to make oneself mad, but… — Susanna Clarke 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
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius........'' ''Give a girl the right shoes and she will conquer the world — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
"Alleluia" song is a street hymn in the sense that it's all about culture.It's almost a juxtaposition of the prayers of the… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
