Manic quotes

View Quote Wakefulness

View Quote We are not ourselvesWhen nature, being oppress'd, commands the mindTo suffer with the body.

View Quote We might liken the 'two selves' to Laurel and Hardy. Ollie is the objective mind, 'you'. Stan is the subjective mind, the 'hidden you'. But Stan happens to be in control of your energy supply. So if you wake up feeling low and discouraged, you (Ollie) tend to transmit your depression to Stan, who fails to send you energy, which makes you feel lower than ever. This vicious circle is the real cause of most mental illness.

View Quote We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first he was resisted, and all men agreed he was mad. But persisting—as indeed he could not help doing—for some time in this course, he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him. No man would think of speaking falsely with him, or of putting him off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plain dealing, and what love of nature, what poetry, what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him. But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and its back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

View Quote Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

View Quote What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

View Quote When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

View Quote Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

View Quote Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

View Quote William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Chapter X.

View Quote William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 208.

View Quote William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 96.

View Quote William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 1, line 196.

View Quote William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act III, scene 4, line 48.

View Quote William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 109.