There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as sane and insane. That mental health is a continuum, a line on which we all move… — Linda Green Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
“For all our mutual experience Our separate conclusions are the same Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers.… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away;… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the… — Friedrich Wohler Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man? Edgerton asks me with a pinprick of… — Nick Cutter Copy Share Image
“Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the… — Denton Welch Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
