Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to play Othello. It seemed like such a 'black actor' cliche, but when I finally did, in my 40s,… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
When Pep played this incredibly attractive and multifaceted football in Barcelona, a lot was written and said about Barca's playing with the… — Julian Nagelsmann Copy Share Image
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they… — Ned Kelly Copy Share Image
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Every one of us has a hard time changing. It’s hard to think straight about anger. It grabs you and it’s got… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away.… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet… — Sudhir Kakar Copy Share Image
“Popular culture has twisted it, but popular culture has twisted madness in general. They make it funny, they romanticize it, or they… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“He was going mad and knew it, and somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach… — Laurence Oliver Copy Share Image
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same?… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
