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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
― Welcome to the Monkey House
― Welcome to the Monkey House
“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”
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“Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.”
― Awaken
― Awaken
“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?”
Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.”
Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.
With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.”
― Pale Demon
Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.”
Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.
With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.”
― Pale Demon
“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”
― Romance
― Romance
“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.”
― Misery
― Misery
“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”
― Wild Roses
― Wild Roses
“Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination.”
― Man of Smoke
― Man of Smoke
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.”
― The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
― The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.”
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“Love is a fake!” Olson was blaring. “There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that’s all!”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
“Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.”
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“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”
― Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
― Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.”
― Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
― Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“People are crazy
and times are strange,
I'm locked in tight
I'm out of range,
I use to care
but things have changed.”
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and times are strange,
I'm locked in tight
I'm out of range,
I use to care
but things have changed.”
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“Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.”
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“When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly”
― Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
― Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
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