Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
Guy de MaupassantTags: insanity solitude loneliness
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de MaupassantTags: insanity sickness thoughts mental-illness
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 matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
Bram StokerTags: insanity belief judgement superstition
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Hunter S. ThompsonTags: insanity inspiration
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan GreenbergTags: cats insanity sanity dan-greenberg
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray BradburyShe was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.
Dakota CassidyTags: humor insanity funny hearing richter-scale
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: insanity violence intemperance
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
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