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

(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

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.

She really talks to you, doesn’t she?” She asked. “it’s not just you talking to her. She talks BACK.””hel, half the time she starts it.” I said, half-defensively. “I know it’s weird.””Well, yes, it’s weird....

…some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need...

they ask why do i look so sadthey wonder if there is something that makes me madhaven’t they understood it all by now? i’m neither mad nor sadi’m just a poet in a dark outfit...

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings...

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

There are four things that make a man fight as you just did,” the duke explained to Rumbold. “Love, despair, anger, or insanity.”Erik counted them off on his fingers. “Everything to lose, nothing to lose,...

Each generation … rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as ‘the lunatic fringe.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment

Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose…. and when you revel in victory, make like it’s a dirty win

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

We’re all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected....

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever...

Insanity is catching.

People are crazy and times are strange, I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range, I use to care but things have changed.

How are you still sane?””Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me.”Shit.

Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce...

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Cory wondered if maybe some people were better off dead. When you’re dead you don’t have to face the horrors of life, whether it’s striving to be the best, dealing with something bad you or...

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

Fear brings your mind to the edge of insanity, where everything is so frighteningly crystal clear you can take in every little thing that’s happening around you. Your body runs purely on adrenaline, with not...

I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy physics. My talk was set for the plenary session, so I asked the...

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir...

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the...

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no...

I have many lovers.Where ever I look, I find them.There is no place devoid of them.They are everywhere:In the enchanting Cottonwood trees,The rivers, the rocky roads, the hills, the mystic trails,The snow capped mountains,The skies,...

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.