In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.
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I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.
Worse than madness. Sanity.
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
If you haven__ lost your mind yet, that__ because you haven__ seen very much.
To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.
Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.
To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA
If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane.
The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.
The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself."The second sign of madness," I explain."What's the first one?""Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."He laughs and sneaks another look at me.
And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness
Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.
It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.