{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Susanna Kaysen","tags":["crazy","friendship","insanity","madness"],"id":3096,"author_id":"Susanna+Kaysen"},{"text":"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["insanity","logic","mind"],"id":3472,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. 'Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.","author":"Dodie Smith","tags":["insanity"],"id":3763,"author_id":"Dodie+Smith"},{"text":"She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something behind in that apartment. Something she'd always taken for granted. Faith in a rational world. It was like a tiny cog had been removed from her brain, and all the gears were still working, but a slight wobble was slowly and inevitably stripping the teeth until one day, without warning the Rube Goldberg device that was her mind would fall apart with a loud SPROING.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["insanity"],"id":4727,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin.","author":"Augusten Burroughs","tags":["humor","insanity"],"id":5218,"author_id":"Augusten+Burroughs"},{"text":"Though this be madness  yet there is method in 't.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["insanity"],"id":5233,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"I teach that all men are mad.","author":"Horace","tags":["insanity"],"id":6089,"author_id":"Horace"},{"text":"His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled. His previous life, which had been without fear, he now dismissed as an illusion since he had come to believe that only in fear could the truth be found. When he woke from sleep without anxiety, he asked himself, What is wrong? What is missing? And then his door opened slowly, and a child put its head around and gazed at him: there are wheels, Ned thought, wheels within wheels. The curtains were now always closed, for the sun horrified him: he was reminded of a film he had seen some time before, and how the brightness of the noonday light had struck the water where a man, in danger of drowning, was struggling for his life.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["anxiety","fear","insanity","madness","terror"],"id":6333,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["charles-bronson","ian-brady","insanity","madness","moors-murderer","prisoner"],"id":7349,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["insanity","suicide"],"id":7651,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":669,"pages":67,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}