I’m talking to myself in two different personas now. I’m reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn’t insanity than what is?

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend...

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

They said what doesn’t kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of...

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as...

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

There is madness in every single being, is there not?

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn’t be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I’ve worked for the pharmaceutical companies, they have a vested belief in making you believe...

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse...

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also...

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

You’re bloody insane, Karede,” Mat said. “Unfortunately, so am I.

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a...

I couldn’t begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried...

The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée’s change of key – to myself, I compared Renée to a...

People say ‘I love Artists’, but what they really know about Artists? They’ve ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is...

He’d never actually been in a room with an insane person. Someone who asked questions they thought they already knew the answers to, or someone who asked, just to hear an answer they could disagree...

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it’s a...

Weird how I can feel so frail and tiny sometimes, and other times so brave and bold and reckless and free, and . . . Does everybody feel the same? When people get grown-up, do...

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could...

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every...

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the...

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

Oh, and I certainly don’t suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love...