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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.
That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
There is a glimpse of me that I'd like to keep private. And I believe that is necessary for my kind of sanity. I'd not like the world to know everything about me.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.
Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.
As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.
If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.
When you say you are from Nepal, people always ask you if you've seen Everest. And I had to say no. I felt like I had to go and do this, just for my sanity.
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
