Manic quotes

View Quote Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

View Quote Mark Twain, "A New Crime" (1870), as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller, ISBN 1566198798

View Quote Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk Lewis"), The Maniac.

View Quote Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, preface to the 1961 edition

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View Quote Monk (TV series) theme song, written by Randy Newman

View Quote Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness. Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it. The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet.

View Quote Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majorityIn this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane;Demur,—you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.

View Quote My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.

View Quote O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;He comes—I see his glaring eyes; Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.Help! Help! He's gone!—O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see!My brain, my brain,—I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be.

View Quote Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy- that's just the way I am.

View Quote Oh! thou who art greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

View Quote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table (1858)

View Quote Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

View Quote Only people who are in a deeply negative state, who feel very bad indeed, would create such a reality as a reflection of how they feel. Now they are engaged in destroying nature and the planet that sustains them. Unbelievable but true. Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species. That's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is also a fact that the sanity is there underneath the madness. Healing and redemption are available right now.