Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the… — Friedrich Wohler Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers.… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the… — Denton Welch Copy Share Image
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“When life is this dull, you have to invent purpose. Collecting torn-up newspaper gives you a hobby, provides an anchoring intimacy with… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When society does something wrong and extremely immoral, ironically it is not called ‘madness’. For example, ‘sati burning’ and ‘forced conversion into… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“An insane person believes his world is consistent. If he believes the government is trying to kill him, he will see ample… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“What would it be like to have been locked up in one of those cells for weeks or months or even years,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“They ask me what is madness and I reply it is a gift. They ask me why, and I said: The world… — Seid Šabanović Copy Share Image
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
Welcome to wonderland, they whisper as she swallows every last pill with a smile on her face. Where reality transitions into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
