Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.
There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone. 'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.' (Katniss and Boggs)
Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.
[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.
And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
I don't know how I feel right now.
I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!
Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.
The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
