#insan

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#insane #insanity #perfectly #rational #world

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane? ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#insane #design

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ↗

— William C. Dement

#insanity #dreams

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night. ↗

— Charles A. Fisher

#insanity #sleep #dreams

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #insanity #dreams

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#suicide #equality

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”) ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#insanity #melancholy #mysticism #sanity #sardonic

... insanity is never reasonable. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#insane #insane-world #insanity #it-s-a-mad-world #life-experience

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#bliss #christ #eternity #faith #ignorance

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#escape #family #friendships #insanity #love