Quote by Joan Didion

“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

— William Dean Howells

“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a…

— Lauren Oliver

“Then were the seeds of madness planted.”

— Christopher Paolini

“You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order…

— Barack Obama

“We need a political earthquake, not geologic earthquake.”

— Davan Yahya Khalil

“I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.”

— Stephanie Ericsson

“When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.”

— Helen O'Reilly

“considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological…

— Alain de Botton

“But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.”

— Russell Hoban

“Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for…

— Josh Waitzkin

“Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long…

— Tim Horvath

“Madness is a distrust of reason.”

— Anonymous