#insan

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#city #francisco #inhabited #insane #insane people

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#aggressive #around #grew #guys #i

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#good #good news #here #i #insane

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#because #came #drove #earned #fast

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#because #been #definite #every #generous

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #clarity #display #hoarding #horror

Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6 ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#vice #virtue #imagination

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized. ↗

— Zoë Heller

#imagination

I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#insanity #humor