#insanity

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious. ↗

— Walter Moers

#insanity #funny

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology

All writers are insane! ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#insanity #writers #humor

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#insanity #louisiana #humor

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#insanity #sanity #short-story #imagination

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#loneliness #solitude #intelligence

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do! ↗

— C.K. Webb

#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life

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

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. ↗

— Richard Yates

#insanity #love