“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.”
If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
Hillel -
I came across a man,
Sitting naked, bestial, in a desert.
In his hands he held his heart,
And he ate of it.
I said, "Friend, is that good?"
He said, “Ah, it is bitter, bitter,
But I like it,
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
I’ve posted my own quotes before so I’ll rehash a couple just for this thread…
On Fatherhood…
“Long days, fast years”
On Art…
Bad art can make you laugh
Good art can make you think
Great art can destroy you
I wrote that down in a moment of enlightenment when I was in full-blown psychosis, and I want it written on my tombstone! I think it’s a brilliantly crazy quote made at the height of my mania.
Madness does often create the best art. I just finished a story titled the Prism. I wrote it when I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, and was kind of in a bizarre mindset. And it shows in the story haha!
To me it basically comes across as meaning if you seek evil in the world, then that’s what you’ll get. But if you seek goodness and light you’ll get that instead.