Quotes About Insanity

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

DoÄŸuÅŸtan bir yeteneÄŸin varsa ya da doÄŸuÅŸtan iyiliÄŸe eÄŸilimin varsa... Sonunda akl?n? kaç?r?yorsun.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. Madness is the most shining way.

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

Ancak mant???n genellikle aptall?k ve deliliÄŸin de deha olarak adland?r?ld??? ÅŸu dünyada kimlerin bilge, kimlerin kaç?k olduÄŸunu söyleyebilir miyiz?

Una donna giovane e affascinante un giorno sostenne, parlando con me non ricordo a quale proposito, che i colpi di luna sono mille volte più pericolosi dei colpi di sole. Li si prende, diceva, senza accorgersene, passeggiando nelle belle serate è non si guarisce mai; si resta pazzi, non pazzi furiosi, pazzi da rinchiudere, ma pazzi di una speciale follia, dolce e continua; non si pensa più come gli altri uomini.

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

A lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

Madness rides the star-wind . . . claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses

Stars are aligning. Must quickly say the Black Mass and make the Voorish Sign. My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He's been scratched some. Yer Servant, Ezra Whateley

the sailor who broke down the door could perhaps have told frightful things if he had not forthwith gone completely mad—

There is method in my madness.

It is only the insane who achieve anything significant.

My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.

To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven't learned to love till you're insane

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

I knew that by some definition both Teddy Giles and Mark Wechsler were insane, examples of indifference many regard as monstrous and unnatural; but in fact they weren't unique and their actions were recognizably human. Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good.