Diane Ackerman Quotes

I've been outta my mind a long time.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.