The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If theyre okay then its you.
That is the truest sign of insanity insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they arecrazy.
What did they seek from him? What were they after? He had never asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him they who pressed a claim on him – and they seemed to have the form of affection but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred. He despised causeless affection just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner – if his response was what they wanted. And it was he thought; else why those constant complaints those unceasing accusations about his indifference? Why that chronic air of suspicion as if they were waiting to be hurt? He had never had a desire to hurt them but he had always felt their defensive reproachful expectation; they seemed wounded by anything he said it was not a matter of his words or actions it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being. Dont start imagining the insane – he told himself severely struggling to face the riddle with the strictest of his ruthless sense of justice. He could not condemn them without understanding; and he could not understand.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If theyre okay then its you.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
Insanity destroys reason but not wit.
That is the truest sign of insanity insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they arecrazy.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Neurotics build castles in the sky and psychotics live in them and people like me just pretend to live in them.
The alleged power to charm down insanity or ferocity in beasts is a power behind the eye.
A person needs a little madness or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.
What did they seek from him? What were they after? He had never asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him they who pressed a claim on him – and they seemed to have the form of affection but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred. He despised causeless affection just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner – if his response was what they wanted. And it was he thought; else why those constant complaints those unceasing accusations about his indifference? Why that chronic air of suspicion as if they were waiting to be hurt? He had never had a desire to hurt them but he had always felt their defensive reproachful expectation; they seemed wounded by anything he said it was not a matter of his words or actions it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being. Dont start imagining the insane – he told himself severely struggling to face the riddle with the strictest of his ruthless sense of justice. He could not condemn them without understanding; and he could not understand.
Though this be madness yet there is method int. Will you walk out of the air my lord?
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
When we remember we are all mad the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.
You never know what makes some people tick until they begin to unwind.
A man who is of sound mind is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Hes a fruit.