“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting,… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“It’s complete madness! There are cars on fire, shops being looted by teenagers, people rioting and protesting over something they have no… — Jason Medina Copy Share Image
To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because that’s really something I can’t stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing.… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“At times, I felt like an immoral stalker. I knew that I had become a monster, but love, madness and insanity are… — Ekamjit Ghuman Copy Share Image
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love...… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause… — Dave Chapelle Copy Share Image
And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under"… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A demon seduced an angel in the middle of the night and they gave the stars a glimpse. There was nothing casual… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
