“'But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.’”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”— Allen Ginsberg, ginsbergblog.blogspot.com
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual ni…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me. No life is complete without a touch of madness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Victims living in a household where there is narcissistic abuse are living in a torturous war zone, where all forms of power and control are used against them (intimidation; emotional, physical and mental abuse; isolation, economic abuse, sexual abuse, coercion etc.). The threat of abuse is always p…”— Christine Louis de Canonville, narcissisticbehavior.net
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.”— Dale Wasserman, amazon.com
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.”— Susanna Kaysen, amazon.com
“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they chang…”— Steve Jobs, ibtimes.co.uk
“A touch of madness can unleash the great potential we have as artists or as human beings. By creating things and putting all our madness in one project, we can create a masterpiece. By putting our madness to good use, we can help others and help ourselves.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“There’s freedom in madness, freedom in people not expecting you to conform, and freedom in changing without having to explain to everyone. A predictable life is a boring one.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can only experience the euphoria of love when you allow yourself to be madly drenched in it.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”— Philip K. Dkic, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.’”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com