#lunatic

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #humorous #insanity #lunatics #death

FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#childhood-memory #childhood-trauma #lunatic #education

By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!' 'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.' Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect. ↗

— J. Storer Clouston

#humor #lunatic #nunnery #respect

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#communication #inside-out #introvert #lips #lunatic

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#completely #crowd #family #father #fringe

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#arrested #asylum #away #come #everyone

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#because #came #fans #hit #i

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anything #asylum #casual #does #lunatic

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#asylum #complexion #due #jerusalem #lunatic