Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you’re just going along, doing fine, and then afternoon comes and… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Two days in the capitol city and Elena had been reduced to wandering the halls at night, thinking on a man, of… — Stefanie Sloane Copy Share Image
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
“I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that… — Jonathan Lee Copy Share Image
“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded,… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations,… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was going to burn them. He was going to burn them alive. He could do it. He would do it. He… — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
“The venom clamours of a jealous woman, Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder’d by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Recognizing our own craziness is, of course, the first step towards true sanity, Its the beginning our healing, peace, happiness and transcendence.… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
[Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image