Jun 28, 2010 23:29
"I don't know what it is with the mad, but they've certainly got force of will. Maybe it's not having the checks and balances the rest of us have, or perhaps I'm kidding myself: maybe their minds are simply clearer, unclouded with the anxieties and morality that the rest of us are swaddled with. Perhaps they have the courage to point their magical thinking at the stars."
~MICHAEL MARSHALL, The Upright Man
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” ~Jean Dubuffet
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one." ~George Orwell
"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. " ~Georges Clemenceau
"See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience" ~Jane Wagner
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness." ~Aristotle
"Insanity is contagious" ~Joseph Heller
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
""In a mad world, only the mad are sane." ~Akira Kurosawa
"Humor is just an attitude. Insanity is a way of life."
- Chloe Scarborough
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. " ~Ray Bradbury
"The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing." ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops." ~Emilie Autumn
"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane." ~anonymous