Fascination Quote by Susanna Kaysen

Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An…

— Susanna Kaysen

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the…

— Susanna Kaysen

Perception determines insanity.

— Phil Collins

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”

— Ania Ahlborn

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

— Jean Dubuffet

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

— R. D. Laing

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

— Kathryn Stockett

Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.

— Anonymous

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

— Chogyam Trungpa

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr