[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Sane...Insane, it's all a matter of balance. Keeping your sanity is like walking a tightrope across some great abyss. If the slightest… — Terry Lovett Copy Share Image
Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
There are some dried flowers found in between the pages of your books.. you've done a lot of saving, haven't you? — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The sadness that overwhelms us, the retardation that paralyzes us, are also a shield—sometimes the last one—against madness” — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told… — Shyreen Tyler Copy Share Image
“I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity. From "Butterfly… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)” — Francesco Petrarca Copy Share Image
“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds… — Laura Goode Copy Share Image
Don't make me mad then tell me to calm down. That's like stabbing then wondering why they're bleeding. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A smart man once told me the wait for something to happen can drive a sane man mad. And this place is… — Trisha Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There was something else that Hall used to say–that life itself was uncertainty, and the only remedy to its madness was to… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
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