#insanity

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives. ↗

— William Dement

#dreams #insanity #sleeping #dreams

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

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford #insanity #lemons #life

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#genius #insanity #many

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#women #women

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ↗

— Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#garlic #insanity #salad

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#insomnia #reality #sleep #wake #dreams

In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to appear sane--who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the passage of time, and especially if the maverick's creation yields a profit of any kind, is deemed less and less insane until the maverick worms his or her way into the fibers of history. Then generations grow to envy the ingenuity and courage of the maverick while glossing over the maverick's genetic kookiness. On such shoulders, a country rises. ↗

— Michael Paterniti

#mavericks #courage

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing. ↗

— Stephen King

#god #insanity #change