Quotes About Insanity

Nu exist? salvare prin nebunie, fiindc? nu exist? om cu presentimentul nebuniei care s? nu se team? de lucidit??ile eventuale într-o asemenea stare. Ai vrea haosul, dar È›i-e fric? de luminile din el.

Only to the degree that our moments afford us some contact with death do we have some chance to glimpse on what insanity all existence is based.

German endurance knows no limits — even in madness: Nietzsche endured his eleven years, Hölderlin forty.

Life seems good only to the madman

The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.

The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.

Madness that is so nearly allied to genius can know no cure in this world.

He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.

The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art...Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.

Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles's mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk.

Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?' 'Emperor,' I said promptly.

We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

American creative energy has always teetered on the brink of insanity.

Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.