insanity

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition--the desire to succeed--to have power--leads to most ills of the human soul. If the desire is realized it leads to arrogance, violence and final satiety; and if it is denied--ah! if it is denied--let all the asylums for the insane rise up and give their testimony! The are filled with human beings who were unable to face being mediocre, insignificant, ineffective and who therefore created for themselves ways of escape from reality so to be shut off from life itself forever.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach?

Am I cured?_ __o. You__e someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness._ __s wanting to be different a serious illness?_ __t is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It__ a distortion of nature, it goes against God__ laws, for in all the world__ woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it__ insane to be different, and that__ why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?_ Mari nodded. __eople go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.

One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas.The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying.("New York Blues")

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

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

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it__ painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

I am but a man attempting to be graceful as I slowly decend into madness.