#lunatic

I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#lunacy #lunatic #life

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#lunatic #men

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#fringe #lunatic #masses #opium #organized

Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#joris-karl-huysmans #lunatic #moon #romantic

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#father #had #influence #lunatic #me

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#called #delusions #his #lunatics #philosopher

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#arguing #behind #cartoons #creepy #desk

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#flourishes #lunatic #most #optimism #place

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difference #idiots #lunatics #main #men