#insan

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#insanity #logic-reason #poets #imagination

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. ↗

— Paul Auster

#fearlessness #insanity #nothing-to-lose #inspirational

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

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#madness #reality #hypocrisy

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#intemperance #violence #violence

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “if we ever need someone mental. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #prison

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#media-corruption #rally-to-restore-insanity #media

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ↗

— William Blake

#genius #hell #insanity #torment #genius

To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery. ↗