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.
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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, read more
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]
Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini read more
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
