Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back....

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love…

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.

And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can’t tell the difference, I’m never quite...

Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

When you realize that there’s a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you’ve identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and...

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from...

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness – in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of...

He was nuts. He’d scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.Not that that’s ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

That’s why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they’re nice until they’re chaining you up in the garage.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Durante el tiempo en que permaneció en su celda Ivánov se hizo amigo de una rata a la que puso el nombre de Nikita.Por las noches, cuando la rata aparecía, Ivánov sostenía largas conversaciones con...

All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else’s nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will...

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.

There’s always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there’s always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be...

You can’t be spontaneous within reason.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified.

We’re authors. We’re more than a little unstable.

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space...

The next I’m standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I’m bleeding all over, hoping I don’t get arrested. It was completely crazy. But...

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by…And it’s insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can’t speak as wellI need...

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

What Norman Bates calls for is for an actor to be able to go into their insanity, … Vince is one of the few people I think who’s willing to go into that duplicity in...

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention,...

Mapenzi ni wazimu, kama si wazimu si mapenzi.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.”The sign read:”Hold stick near...

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable....

We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the...

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

I put my clothing into the refrigerator and the foods into my wardrobe; am I in love?

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and...

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. – Ward 9

I am the scourge of God