Balance Quote by Flannery O'Connor

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that…

— D. H. Lawrence

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

— Paul Theroux

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that…

— Machado de Assis

“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him…

— M. John Harrison

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald