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  • Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

    Wall   Reality   Watches  
    Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.42, Penguin
  • The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  • The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

    Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press
  • At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  • Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

    Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)
  • alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

    Wall   Fate   Men  
    Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”
  • Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

    Life   Math   Looks  
  • But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

    Nice   People   Progress  
    "Alarms and Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.
  • We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  • Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.

    Taken   Eye   Simple  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.42, Faber & Faber
  • England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

    Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”
  • The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

    Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
  • The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

    Nice   Sleep   Vision  
    Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.121, Penguin
  • ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  • Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

    Zero   Fighting   Dark  
  • As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

    Jail   Goes On   Forget  
  • I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

    Nazism   Rebellion   Howl  
    Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet
  • A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

  • Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

    Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2939, Delphi Classics
  • The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I.

  • Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

    Beautiful   Strong   Wall  
    Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
  • No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.86, Penguin
  • This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

    Boys   Years   Next Day  
  • We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

    Country   War   Hero  
    Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books
  • Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

  • Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

    Stupid   Ideas   Space  
    Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.43, Cambridge University Press
  • When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

    People   Age   World  
    "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.
  • [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

    Jail   Mind   Steps  
  • The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

  • It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

    Running   Kids   Player  
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