Category Archives: Insanity

Indira

“America is a dumbass country. It’s sad that we’re a superpower in this world. We treat this country like it’s a sports team: Go America!! Kick Iraq’s ass! All right red, white and blue!”

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John-Paul Sartre, Les Mots / Words

“You can get rid of neurosis but you are never cured of yourself.”

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Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“Actually, in my opinion, a man didn’t have to be insane to be sensitive. There were people who could be wounded by trifles and whom a single hard word could kill.”

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Henry Miller, Black Spring

“You have to be crazy to see things so lucidly, so all at once. If you’re great you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But if you’re only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost.”

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Michele Foucault, Madness and Civilisation

“Here madness and non-madness, reason and non-reason are inextricably involved: inseparable at the moment when they do not yet exist, and existing for each other, in relation to each other, in the exchange which separates them.”

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Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

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Zame

“I’m not stubborn, I’m just right.”

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