Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.