Craziness Quotes (page 27)

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• crazy
• look
• history

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one. Mel Brooks

• crazy
• bad
• sober

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. Rumi

• cold
• funny
• thinking

The notion originated with Daisy’s suggestion that we hire five bath-rooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as “a place to have a mint julep.” Each of us said over and over that it was a “crazy idea.”—we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny... F. Scott Fitzgerald

• life
• home
• blessed

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to... Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• crazy
• rested
• moderation

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy. Ann Coulter

• faith
• crazy
• generalization

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith. Penn Jillette

• crazy
• beauty
• smile

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need. Paulo Coelho

• death
• football
• crazy

Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat. Alan Moore

• time
• great
• crazy

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time. John Gardner

• evening
• soul
• equality

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights... Friedrich Nietzsche

• life
• crazy
• insanity

Honestly, I’ve never felt better in my life. It’s like somebody flicked a switch and I’ve suddenly realized how crazy I’d been acting all those years. All that talk about interfacing with an ultra-dimensional Phoenix deity – it was absolutely insane. Mark Millar

• crazy
• mind
• mindfulness

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind. Jack Kerouac

• crazy
• tears
• cheer

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh. James Patterson

• love
• death
• best

TYRONE[Stares at him -- impressed.]Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right.[Then protesting uneasily]But that's morbid craziness about not being wanted and loving death. EDMUND[Sardonically]The makings of a poet. No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for a smoke. He hasn't even got the makings. He's got only the habit. I couldn't touch what I tried to tell you just now. I just stammered. That's the best I'll ever do, I mean, if I live. Well, it will be faithful... Eugene O'Neill

• drunk
• humanity
• powerful

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. Kurt Vonnegut