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“But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
― Akira Kurosawa

“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple

“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Wei Hui

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not 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. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
― Ronald D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
― Erich Segal

“The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.”
― Mick Jagger

“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”
― Tom Stoppard

“Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
— Russ Cargill”
― Matt Groening

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea