Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts… — Rampo Edogawa Copy Share Image
“The world nowadays is so perverted. Some people think I'm insane only because they don't understand my point of view.” — Mario Fingarov Copy Share Image
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
And when I look back, at all the crazy fights we have, Like some kind of M-m-madness, Was taking control, — Westaytrippy Copy Share Image
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach… — Laurence Oliver Copy Share Image
You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
“Most people who have LLI do end up going crazy, Sofia … unless they have a high enough IQ to handle it.… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Mental' isn't a reason. It comes in an awful lot of flavors, most of them are non-violent, and every single one of… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is… — Nassir Ghaemi Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I… — Roger Clemens Copy Share Image
We are all just a little crazy. We all have that internal dialogue going. Well actually not anymore — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I understand the insecurities that come with being a part of showbiz. You need not just talent but a little bit of… — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm sometimes driven to the conclusion that boring people need treatment more urgently than mad people.” — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is considered madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe [the man who talks to himself] is normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
“imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image