#insan

Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more strangely, and so far I’d had no conversations with invisible buddies that I was aware of. Except in my sleep, of course-and did that really count? Weren’t we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor’s children? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#insanity #madness #mind #psyche #sleep

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

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #in-love #insane-love #mad-love #obsessive-love

... insanity is never reasonable. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

While there still is a word for the word “normal”, the world with all it's constellations of problems will continue to assume they know what that means based on their experiences and upbringing. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bias #insane #normal #stereotypes #stupidity

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

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#death

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ↗

— Joseph Kesselring

#insanity #family

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#awkward #family #friends #insane #mental-issues