"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Lennon, John | Madness | 4 bookmarks

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Hope | 21 bookmarks

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard | Hope | 2 bookmarks

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus | Hope | 2 bookmarks

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav | Hope | 1 bookmarks

"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian | Hope | 26 bookmarks

"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French | Hope | 2 bookmarks

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

LeGuin, Ursula K. | Sanity | 1 bookmarks

"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel | Insanity | 2 bookmarks

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

Freud, Sigmund | Insanity | 2 bookmarks