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#insanity

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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

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.


Criss Jami


#cute #difficulties #disobedience #evidence #funny

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.


Dakota Cassidy


#hearing #humor #insanity #richter-scale #funny

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.


Johnny Carson


#entertainment #funny #hollywood #humor #insanity

All writers are insane!


Cornelia Funke


#insanity #writers #humor

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.


James Lee Burke


#insanity #louisiana #humor

I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had meant the night before, about the insanity that had gripped him. He was not so far gone as to be lost, but he was close, and I knew it had come from me turning my back on him as I had started to flee. Whether I wanted to or not, I anchored him to this world, and I was the only thing he'd known, maybe for his whole life. He had watched me, yes, he had stalked me, oh yes, but it had driven him to the edge. I inhaled sharply at the wildness I saw in him, the despair that was threatening to rise.


T.J. Klune


#insanity #life

Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states. I noted that criminals as well as the insane tended to give off a palpable, vibrating allure, a kind of animal magnetism that kept them loved by someone. How else could they survive at all? Someone had to hide them from the authorities! Hence the necessity and prevalence of sex appeal for people who were wild and on the edge.


Lorrie Moore


#sex #love

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.


Edgar Allan Poe


#insanity #intelligence #sanity #intelligence






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