#insan

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#insanity #ironic #life #sane #sanity

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 so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #madness #love

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#insanity #love

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#humor #insane #philosophy #poetry #beauty

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. ↗

— James Lankford

#crossroads #crushing #debt #illegal #illegal immigration

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. ↗

— John Lennon

#effect #great #great effect #had #i

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#chosen #crime #dark #deliberately #expressed

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#details #drive #else #i #important

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#answer #asylums #caught #did #going

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#insane #logical #most #person #sometimes