#madness

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#mental-health #mental-illness #sanity #mental-illness

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing? ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#mental-health #octopi #octopus #slothrop #mental-health

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little longer. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#mental-health #mental-illness #sanity #mental-health

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #enough #good #greatest #illusion

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

All of my characters have a glint of madness. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#madness

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#dare #else #free #little #madness

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#functions #long #madness #man #protected