Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one day, something inside you dies. Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought, begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die. That's hysteria siberiana.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: madness alone emptiness farmer siberia arctic hysteria-siberiana
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
Rohinton MistryStichwörter: insanity madness sanity
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You don't seem mad at all,' she said.
But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
Stichwörter: life philosophy madness depression expectations thoughts
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But...you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?
Stichwörter: humor madness sarcasm dionysus percy-jackson nice
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
William SaroyanIf there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
John Kenneth GalbraithProfessors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
Michael GruberStichwörter: madness teachers professors
Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.
Floriano MartinsStichwörter: madness desert mirrors
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
George SantayanaIf I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
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