#insanity

"Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing."

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."

"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

"If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike."

"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

"This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death."

"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy."

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

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

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."

"The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence."

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit."

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked"

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."