I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity
Grant MorrisonStichwörter: insanity madness prison mental-illness batman
Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.
Lauren BeukesStichwörter: insanity work customer-service cookies crazy-people
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 center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion."
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
Stichwörter: insanity society satire genius comedy social-anxiety hermit
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
William FaulknerStichwörter: insanity sanity self-awareness duality
He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.
Stephen KingStichwörter: insanity god cruelty
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Susanna KaysenStichwörter: insanity stillness velocity fascination viscosity
Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
Alessandra TorreStichwörter: insanity despair hope tragedy danger hopeless insane insanity-is-normal
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, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
Stichwörter: love insanity despair fight anger prince guard erik duke rumbold velius
Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.
Michael WallaceStichwörter: insanity
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]
This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).
Stichwörter: insanity skeptic freethinker skepticism socrates freethought inspired
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