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#insanity

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It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.


Frank Tallis


#imagination #insanity #isolation #mind #pathology

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)


Thomas Ligotti


#insanity #melancholy #mysticism #sanity #sardonic

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.


Robert G. Ingersoll


#bliss #christ #eternity #faith #ignorance

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.


Shannon L. Alder


#escape #family #friendships #insanity #love

All writers are insane!


Cornelia Funke


#insanity #writers #humor

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.


James Lee Burke


#insanity #louisiana #humor

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms


Guy de Maupassant


#loneliness #solitude #intelligence

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.


Richard Kadrey


#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.


George Eliot


#sanity #life

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do!


C.K. Webb


#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life






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