Screw Them

 

"You were heartbreakingly tender." — Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; Black Sail White Sail.

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul." — Charles Bukowski.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” — Edgar Allen Poe.

"I am the lady of the castle. My name is exile. My name is anguish. My name is longing. Far from the world on the windy crests of the mountain, I am kept in absolute seclusion, my time passes in an endless reverie, a perpetual swooning. I am both the Sleeping Beauty and the enchanted castle; the princess drowses in the castle of her flesh." —  Angela Carter, from The Curious Room: Collected Dramatic Works. (Image from Metropolis).

"And there will

be someone that

comes along one

day and offers you

an entire galaxy when

you only expected

a single planet.

 —  Noor Shirazie​

While researching a new drug, Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) stumbles on a potion that can make him invisible. When he reveals his new ability to his old mentor (Henry Travers) and his fiancée (Gloria Stuart), it's clear that a side effect of the potion is insanity.

The Invisible Man, directed by James Whale, is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel of the same name, published in 1897.

"Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of my own moods, I am never far; my thoughts always circle around you."  —  Friedrich Nietzsche.

'Moon Worship' by Louise Benton

“Follow your inner Moonlight; don't hide the madness.” — Allen Ginsberg.

“Will you fall in love

with the madness inside me?

Will you cherish it?”

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

“I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.” — Edgar Allan Poe.

“Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” — Albert Camus.

'No Good Trying'

By Syd Barrett

It's no good trying to place your hand
Where I can't see, because I understand
That you're different from me
Yes, I can tell that you can't be what you pretend
And you're rocking me backwards and you're rocking towards
The red and yellow mane of a stallion horse

It's no good trying to place your hand
Where I can't see, because I understand
That you're different from me
Yes, I can tell that you can't be what you pretend
The caterpillar hood won't cover the head of you
Know you should be home in bed

It's no good holding your sequin fan
Where I can't see, because I understand
That you're different from me
Yes, I can tell that you can't be what you pretend
Yes, you're spinning around and around in a car
With electric lights flashing very fast 

 
The Madcap Laughs, 1970