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“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. ”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
― Welcome to the Monkey House
― Welcome to the Monkey House
“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.”
― On the Gods and Other Essays
― On the Gods and Other Essays
“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”
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“She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.”
― The Accidental Werewolf
― The Accidental Werewolf
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
― Healology
― Healology
“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?â€�
Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.�
Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,� she said as she eased back into the cushions.
With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.”
― Pale Demon
Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.�
Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,� she said as she eased back into the cushions.
With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.”
― Pale Demon
“The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.”
― Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology
― Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology
“Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.”
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“And you think you're on the brink of madness, you think that this moment is going to be when you finally snap, but it's not.
"How do you know that?"
"Because it gets easier every time. Eventually you learn to exist on the precipice of insanity.”
― The Dragon Republic
"How do you know that?"
"Because it gets easier every time. Eventually you learn to exist on the precipice of insanity.”
― The Dragon Republic
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher”
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Henry Ward Beecher”
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“Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified.”
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified.”
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel â€� they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.”
― Misery
― Misery
“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane â€� not just insane but totally so â€� or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”
― Wild Roses
― Wild Roses
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
― ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
― ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.”
― The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
― The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Love is a fake!â€� Olson was blaring. “There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that’s all!”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
“Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.”
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“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”
― Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
― Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“We're all dreaming,â€� 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. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
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