I was feeling insane the whole morning. I dragged myself to the bathroom, drank 3 cups of caffeinated dirt, and endlessly listened to Imogen Heap. I searched for anything already said to explain this something inside me. I was not successful because none of them where able to give me any consolation.
Probably, the treacherous city will give me the answers to my yet-to-be verbalized questions. Probably, losing myself in the false gaiety of Dinagyang will help. ‘Till Monday everyone.
Dilbert to Dogbert: “My invention will turn people into mindless sheep.”
Dogbert to Dilbert: “I’m curious how you’ll know it works. I assume it’s mostly a cosmetic change.”
Scott Adams
“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
“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”
Carl Bernstein, U.S. journalist. Guardian (London, June 3, 1992)
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
Ray Bradbury
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it’s you.”
Rita Mae Brown
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
Johann von Goethe
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
Hermann Hesse (1877 – 1962)
“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.”
Aldous Huxley
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), founder of analytical psychology
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
Akiro Kurosawa
“Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
R. D. Lang
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US author, “The Princess”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives…. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends … and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”
John Lennon, Interview BBC-TV (June 22, 1968)
“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”
Sam Levenson
“Years ago, it meant something to be crazy. Now everyone’s crazy.”
Charles Manson
“Stop the world. I want to get off.”
Anthony Newly
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.”
Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity!”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), American poet
“When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
Lily Tomlin (1939 – ), Actress
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
Lily Tomlin (1939 – ), Actress
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
“The world is tragic to those who feel and comic to those who think.”
Robert Walpole
And my favorite:
“Sometimes I think that the greatest sign that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe is that it hasn’t tried to contact us yet.”
Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes”
Going against the current 