#sanity

There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless places where one might nest for a night. But the depths of living pitch only visit the aristocracy of madmen and women who’ve unwittingly pledged fealty to the curse. For some, it outright ruins minds like a hound to fresh meat; for others, it wanes into the deepest parts of its less caustic sibling and waits for the time to strike, returning periodically through life like an incurable disease. ↗

— Darrell Drake

#bedlamite #darkness #dementia #insanity #lunacy

I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge. ↗

— Erica Goros

#life-humor #living-life-to-the-fullest #making-it #sanity #life

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#insanity #motherhood #love

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time. ↗

— Stefan Grabiński

#fantasy #fiction #insanity #reality #thought

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. ↗

— Michael Caine

#evil #insanity #the-dark-knight #men

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#money

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#karen-marie-moning #insanity

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#insanity #mental-illness

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. ↗

— Tony Blair

#only #require #sanity #things #two

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good