Top 100 Life Madness Quotes

#1. In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.

Albert Camus

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#2. What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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#3. Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Gustave Flaubert

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#4. If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#5. You mean magic is predicated on hope?"
"Hope," [Antryg] said, "and belief in life. We move blindly from second to second through time. Hope and magic both involve the casting forward of the soul. In a way, both magic and hope are a kind of madness.

Barbara Hambly

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#6. To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.

River Fairchild

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#7. There must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

Ruth Rendell

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#8. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Miguel De Cervantes

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#9. Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Woodrow Wilson

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#10. You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

Anais Nin

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#11. Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#12. Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems.

Marty Rubin

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#13. My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Bharati Mukherjee

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#14. For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

Jason E. Hodges

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#15. We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

John Gallagher Jr.

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#16. And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.

Ken Wilber

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#17. Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Paglia

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#18. Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your lap. Because life could also be so sweet.

Wendy Higgins

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#19. I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.

Pankaj Mishra

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#20. It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

David Lynch

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#21. Had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Anne Fortier

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#22. Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

Sudhir Kakar

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#23. How much is real and for how long..

J. Limbu

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#24. Why is there such madness in our world? Why can't we stop it? Why do we hate others? Tolerance, harmony, compassion, and kindness are the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

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#25. ... insanity is never reasonable.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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#26. And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Charles Baudelaire

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#27. I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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#28. One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness

Anne Lamott

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#29. Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Emile M. Cioran

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#30. Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#31. Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#32. To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Edgar Lee Masters

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#33. Following the footnotes of a Lincoln book can drive you towards madness. But it also gives you the chance to spend days trying to determine whether Lincoln might have actually taken a ride on a flying piano, and that's a damned interesting way to spend one's working life.

Adam Selzer

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#34. In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#35. In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

G.K. Chesterton

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#36. And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it ...

Charlotte Bronte

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#37. I dance - to ease the madness, to subdue the longing, to breathe life into my dreams.

Cheri Bauer

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#38. Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

Vernor Vinge

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#39. Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."

Manolo Blahnik

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#40. It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for it to explain history on earth, but I can't see any reason why the universe shouldn't be full of life.

Graham Hancock

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#41. This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

Charlotte Eriksson

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#42. Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

Libba Bray

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#43. life is one long headwind. To make any kind of impact requires self-will bordering on madness.

Maria Semple

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#44. My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition
broken mirrors and so forth
hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.

Benjamin Wood

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#45. No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry
So my verse has
this almost imperceptible thrill
Life is sad, the world is crazy!
Not worth killing yourself for it
Not for anyone
For no love
Life goes on, indifferently!

Mario Quintana

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#46. I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed him so that food had no taste and art had no beauty and life had no meaning.

Annabel Joseph

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#47. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.

Ana Menendez

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#48. What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.

Clarice Lispector

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#49. One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

Robert Poe

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#50. Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Brendon Burchard

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#51. Love is the sweetest madness of life.

Debasish Mridha

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#52. A poetess is a collection of unfinished thoughts. She is a tormented phantom, a harbinger of life and death. Those who peer deep inside her catacombs will learn that even madness is a virtue.

Nichole McElhaney

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#53. I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

Clarice Lispector

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#54. MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity." The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62

Kahlil Gibran

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#55. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#56. Positive madness leads to new knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#57. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Laurence Olivier

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#58. I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..

Paulo Coelho

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#59. In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

Kedar Joshi

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#60. There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Pink Floyd

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#61. It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.

Jay Long

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#62. Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Alain De Botton

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#63. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Socrates

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#64. I'm just saying it doesn't always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn't make them less real.

Kendare Blake

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#65. Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential -

Henri J.M. Nouwen

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#66. If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

Carole King

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#67. Life without madness is mediocrity.

Nelou Keramati

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#68. Flying high in the dark sky, crazy and free, I was happy visiting the worlds and giving death or madness to the people. Either was liberation.

Lara Biyuts. Vampire Armastus

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#69. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

Fiona Mountain

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#70. Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.

Philip Roth

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#71. This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#72. Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?

Maryrose Wood

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#73. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Lev Shestov

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#74. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Mark Twain

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#75. That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Sean Penn

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#76. I never imagined that something as solemn and final as death could be this idiotic. It was the keyhole through which I first glimpsed life's madness: the
institutions we believe in will pervert us, our loved ones will fail us, and death is a falling piano.

Anthony Marra

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#77. One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

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#78. On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.

Thomas Love Peacock

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#79. Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#80. If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love ... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous ... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

Yasmina Khadra

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#81. It seemed humans, the scientifically minded ones at least, were either tempting death or trying to prolong life. Surely that was an indication of madness.

Kady Cross

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#82. Can one man's madness be another's real life?

Emma Frances Dawson

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#83. Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Zohra Sehgal

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#84. Too much sanity may be madness - and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Dale Wasserman

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#85. I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Kendall Hailey

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#86. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Carla H. Krueger

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#87. Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

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#88. A woman carries her inner life - lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her - while nourishing another's inner life, many others actually, while never revealing too much madness, or, possibly, never revealing where she stores it: her island of lost mind.

Durga Chew-Bose

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#89. As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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#90. Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

J. Leigh Bralick

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#91. He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness

Seema Gupta

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#92. I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

William, Saroyan

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#93. Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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#94. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

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#95. Like madness is the glory of this life.

William Shakespeare

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#96. A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Anne Lamott

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#97. Beneath mounting waves of fear, I discover faith. In the midst of madness, I discover a new meaning to my life. I learn that the strength I had long sought in others had always resided in me. Despite despair, I discover the power within to transform my life.

Gayathri Ramprasad

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#98. I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Carew Papritz

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#99. Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

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#100. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Neel Burton

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