“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“She is both my madness and my sanity. She is the calm quiet eye of my storm. She is the whisper in… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go… — Amrita Acharia Copy Share Image
“Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story.… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“Do I think you’re crazy? he said. No. I dont. You’ve rewrote the book for crazy. If all you are is crazy… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I'm very glad I've got a make-up artist. I have trouble going to school when I've got bad spots and things like… — Georgie Henley Copy Share Image
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
“There’s a valid point somewhere beneath the layers of insanity. But most of the things you described are… incremental evils, if that… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing… — Barry Kerch Copy Share Image
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Have you figured it out yet?” “What?” I say. “What it means to be alive?” “Nah mate…” “I guess the secret lies… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true"… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The only art I've been ever interested in is the curve of a woman's legs as she lays on the floor gibbering… — Dennis Liggio Copy Share Image
Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“Campaign to destigmatize so-called "mental illness" often take a wrong turning here. They try to demonstrate how suffers of some condition have… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is… — Joseph Conrad 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