“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
The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“And second, everyone is so weird , but they're all completely accepted. It's like, okay, you have a pumpkin head, and that… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“A sane person who dwells among the mad will become insane because they will act like the mad. One who cares and… — David Ssembajjo Copy Share Image
“Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort… — Susanna Kaysen 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
“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
“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
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
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other, it will unriddle many riddles, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that… — Plato 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… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Love is a lot of magic and madness followed by marriage. These are the three M's for me. I think these three… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes… — Jim Cramer 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