#sanity

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #madness #love

ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ ↗

— أبو الطيب المتنبي

#ignorance

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ↗

— Criss Jami

#living #passion #patience #peace #perfection

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows there's enough torture growing wild in everybody's life so that nobody in his right mind needs to cultivate it - but a serene thing. Don't, in other words, jazz yourself up into a nervous wreck. Be quiet, be as sane as you can, and let the work come out of you. If it's to come, it will; if it's not, no amount of self-induced frenzy is going to hep it along. One final piece of solemn, teacherly advice, and I do mean this: Try to like yourself a little better. ↗

— Blake Bailey

#inspiration #sanity #art

You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life.... These people no longer made progress. ↗

— Anne Spollen

#hospital #sanity #life

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#rainbow #sanity #gender

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#genius #insanity #many

Religion is induced insanity. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#insanity #religion

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#before #fear #go #i #insanity

In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to appear sane--who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the passage of time, and especially if the maverick's creation yields a profit of any kind, is deemed less and less insane until the maverick worms his or her way into the fibers of history. Then generations grow to envy the ingenuity and courage of the maverick while glossing over the maverick's genetic kookiness. On such shoulders, a country rises. ↗

— Michael Paterniti

#mavericks #courage