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“But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, tal...”
“The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the ma...”
“That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to j...”
“There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.”
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA”
“To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.”
“To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.”
“How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?”
“...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.”
“Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. This has also been written about by the noted English chemist Wellington. I confess, I felt trouble...”
“Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolvedor not quite evolved enoughto bear the awful burden of its own existence.”
“There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.”
“It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf”
“If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.”
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
“The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.”
“In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared...”
“Why does our world feel so very crazy? Why do mental and emotional illnesses emerge more rapidly than we can educate psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, and mental health counselor...”
“I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seemTo mock me now, all night, all night, andHave I strayed among the cliffs hereThey say, some day I'll fallDown through the sea-bit fissures, and no more...”
“You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like...”
