Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

... madness entered my veins.

... too emotionally strung out.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

I am freaking out! I am freaking out, man!

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.