QUOTES OF THE DAY 7-25-13

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
― Akira Kurosawa

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The only difference between me and a madman is I’m not mad.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness – in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. ”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp