And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Insanity is refusal to stay in the present as other people experience it. You see, insanity is really like getting caught in… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A black butterfly, confused and mad, Stung at my hand, thinking it was bad. My hand, not mad, just curious and sad,… — 3rd Degree Burn Copy Share Image
“I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.”… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“love is the most down played disease in the world, only its down played because its the only disease tht isn't considered… — Rashaad Lee Copy Share Image
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called 'crazy,' and we are painted with such… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He who begets something which is alive must dive down into the primeval depths in which the forces of life dwell. And… — Walter Friedrich Otto Copy Share Image
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.… — Louis De Bernieres Copy Share Image
Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
