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“You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?"

(Editorial, The Times, 22 July 1853)”
― Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

“In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked, or should I, turning up to the sky, be answering the question that’s not been asked?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“In this atmosphere, where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?

And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”
― Vera Nazarian, Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons

“Because what she dreaded now, ever since that walk down Lexington Avenue, was that the illness that had possessed, transformed, and consumed her father might also be at work in her brain. She could feel herself think differently and knew that, in the end, it did not matter whether this feeling was based on reality or fantasies. What mattered was that she was unable to stop thinking about her thoughts. Her speculations reflected one another, like parallel mirrors- and, endlessly, each image inside the vertiginous tunnel looked at the next wondering whether it was the original or a reproduction. This, she told herself, was the beginning of madness. The mind becoming the flesh for its own teeth.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“What did Albert Camus say? It's not one thing or the other that leads to madness; it's the space in between them.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“I want to know if men realise when they are insane.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Doll

“It is easy to see how, in a world as devoid of meaning as the one that all of these fictional characters inhabit - a world modeled closely on the real modern world - madness is both a legitimate response and an effective challenge to the superficial sanity of the social order and historical process…only the person out of step with society has an appropriate vantage point from which to view its failings; only the person who fails to obey the institutions that mandate certain behaviors can appreciate their rigidity and the consequences of nonconformity. And only those who are victims of the system can bring about real reforms in it. Only the inmates can run the asylum - and, as much of the best experimental fiction of recent years suggests, only the inmates should.”
― Barbara Tepa Lupack, Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction: Inmates Running the Asylum

“I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.”
― Donna Tartt;

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Then, that email bounces back rejected with a note that says they no longer use that email address. It advises me to reapply using the same contact form that they originally rejected me with.
The clincher: I was rejected because my website uses a contact form, too.
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― Todd Lyons

“A lie unchecked is the seed of insanity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To demand adherence to a lie is to birth obedience to insanity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You demand that I perpetuate the lie about who you are. Then at some point when you’re finally forced to embrace the truth about who you are, you confront me with the fact that I never confronted you about the lie that you demanded I perpetuate. Therefore, to demand adherence to a lie is to birth obedience to insanity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She wanted to sing about babies and breasts and milk and skin on skin, warm babies that were supple and yeasty like freshly baked loaves of bread, so delicious, smell them. Smell.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“He looked up at her with wild, crazy eyes as he kept rocking and scrubbing, rocking and scrubbing. The skin around the black-tattooed bands was brilliant red, completely raw.


"Zsadist?" She straggled to keep her tone gentle and steady. "What are you doing?"


"I… I can't get clean. I don't want you to get dirty, too." He lifted his wrist and blood oozed down his forearm. "See? Look at the dirt. It's all over me. Inside of me."


His voice alarmed her even more than what he'd done to himself, his words carrying the eerie, groundless logic of insanity.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened

“Better go into an asylum," I thought, "to get one's brain turned upside down and rearranged anew, and then be cured again." I still had a thirst for life and a faith in it! … But I remember even then I laughed. "What should I have to do after the madhouse? Write novels again? …”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“Better go into an asylum," I thought, "to get one's brain turned upside down and rearranged anew, and then be cured again." I still had a thirst for life and a faith in it! … But I remember even then I laughed. "What should I have to do after the madhouse? Write novels again? …”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Униженные и оскорблённые

“Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substance, of the body. Art, rooted in insanity, transforms itself through process into sanity: it is matter, the body, that is insane.”
― Rachel Cusk, Parade

“This is the "only a madman" argument.
Whenever I hear it (and it's often trotted out in such debates), I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Zawsze coś było do zrobienia. Dlatego nie zwariowali. Ratunkiem na szaleństwo jest tylko praca, zajęcie dla rąk.”
― Zośka Papużanka, ��ą��DZ�

“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”
― Robert M Pirsig

“At times, I felt like an immoral stalker. I knew that I had become a monster, but love, madness and insanity are hard to explain. Love isn’t a feeling or emotion that fades with time. It is a passion that only intensifies. It defies all wrongs. Thus, my ishq had transformed into my deewangi.”
― Ekamjit Ghuman, Train to Mumbai

“All is insanity… Who so among you that is without insanity, let him think the first think…”
― Conrad Aiken, Blue Voyage

“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane."
"Oh! you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Insanity + Sanity = Masterpiece.”
― Sino Melo

“Sure I'm crazy
But it ain't easy”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“All aboard the insanity express it is, then!”
― Jonathan Trueman, The Treacle People: Still Sticky