„One is always half mad when one is shy of people.“

„When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.“

—  Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862 - 1937

The Children http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400741.txt (1928), ch. XXV

„Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.“

—  Naomi Wolf, kniha The Beauty Myth

Zdroj: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254

„When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.“

—  E. W. Howe Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853 - 1937

Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p72.

„The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.“

—  Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Zdroj: A Fine Balance

„I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.“

—  Nigella Lawson British food writer, journalist and broadcaster 1960

A woman of extremes (2001)

„If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more?
No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

„When men are imbeciles, the one who is mad dominates the others.“

—  Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824

„I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other“

—  Anne Brontë, kniha Dvojí život Heleny Grahamové

Zdroj: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
Kontext: I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

„One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.“

—  Aleister Crowley poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875 - 1947

Zdroj: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

„The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.“

—  E. W. Howe Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853 - 1937

Country Town Sayings (1911), p193.

„No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable“

—  Kay Redfield Jamison American bipolar disorder researcher 1946

Zdroj: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

„Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.“

—  Samuel R. Delany, kniha Neveryóna

Zdroj: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 367)

„I'm the last of the mad ones.“

—  Maureen Johnson writer from the USA 1973

Zdroj: The Name of the Star

„People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.“

—  Stephen King, kniha Svědectví

Zdroj: The Stand

„People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

„Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.“

—  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Mabel Chiltern, Act II
An Ideal Husband (1895)

„I get mad when people are against pot.“

—  Tré Cool Drummer, punk rock musician 1972

http://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=200&aid=24.

„In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.“

—  Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015