#nit

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fear #insanity #sanity #voices #sanity

Where to look if you've lost your mind? ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#insanity #mind #sanity #sanity

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#sanity #sanity

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. ↗

— John Irving

#sanity #sanity

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication ↗

— Nancy Werlin

#sanity

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#sanity

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. ↗

— Dan Greenberg

#dan-greenberg #insanity #sanity #sanity

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#crazy #insane #insanity #sanity #sanity

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#sanity

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#sanity