“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences. — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“ Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane? ” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness. And then the escape was not complete. Part of her… — Elizabeth Lowell Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Despite an icy northeast wind huffing across the bay I sneak out after dark, after my mother falls asleep clutching her leather… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
“Our experiences change us,” he said, but he addressed the canvas instead of Kat. “They cause us to do things, to become… — Jacqueline Davis Copy Share Image
The R.E.M and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“He smirked. “Decision time, pretty lady... back to reality?” She touched his cheek. “Or down the rabbit hole?” — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning. — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands.… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people… — Oleg Kiselev Copy Share Image
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
“I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand,… — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image