#insanity

People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#emotion #insanity #life-of-artist #madness #passion

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane? ↗

— Tim Horvath

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

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

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#life #locura #vida #life

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

Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own. ↗

— Alyssa Reyans

#bipolar-disorder #bipolar-mother #depression #insanity #mental-health

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#sanity #sanity

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

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention, this was the message my clouded mind received. To escape the confines of the hospital, I once again disassociated myself from my emotions and numbed myself to the pain ravaging my body and mind. I acted as if nothing was wrong and went back to performing the necessary motions to get me from one day to the next. I existed but I did not live. ↗

— Alyssa Reyans

#bipolar-disorder #delusions #depression #hallucinations #insanity

He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone. ↗

— Jordan Castillo Price

#psycop #mental-health