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“Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spir...”
“Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.”
“There is madness in every single being, is there not?”
“So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more ...”
“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 educatedBut you havent learned to love till youre insane”
“I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity w...”
“There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.”
“Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.”
“If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”
“Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a noddin...”
“Kyubey: ...Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn't a sane act, Madoka!”
“And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.Connie felt washed-out wit...”
“You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.”
“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”
“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”
“Please don't question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.”
“Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.”
“She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something ...”
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
“Religion is induced insanity.”
