“it was the moment in which a sane man who is talking to a lunatic has not yet perceived that his companion… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.” — Elizabeth Brundage Copy Share Image
Craziness in the heart is being over enthusiastic to one person. Craziness in the mind is being over enthusiastic to one world. — Robert D Dangoor Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“You've been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven't you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? (..) Madness is not to be despised and not to… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see.… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.'… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. — Norm Papernick Copy Share Image
“True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on"--the only affection of the heart for which there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out… — Brom Copy Share Image
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Yeah, why would he want me to be crazy? Crazy chicks can't be all that much fun- well, except to themselves I… — Sarah Ann Walker Copy Share Image
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
When I was in high school watching college games, I was like 'I can't wait to get to March Madness.' — Kevin Knox Copy Share Image
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You think you're mad, too unstable. Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables. In a restaurant in a West End town call… — Pet Shop Boys Copy Share Image