“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
Source: The Temple
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American author 1890–1937Related quotes
“A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.”
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.”
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
Speech to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee (8 September 2013). http://books.google.de/books?id=7_3uugarOF0C&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=theodore+roosevelt+I+don't+pity+any+man+who+does+hard+work+worth+doing.+I+admire+him.+I+pity+the+creature+who+does+not+work,+at+whichever+end+of+the+social+scale+he+may+regard+himself+as+being.&source=bl&ots=seVM4pX9IN&sig=gd7yTZMy3X2h6rIgQVVp5uR0Xu4&hl=de&sa=X&ei=M5FZUvW4M8LXtQby1YD4AQ&ved=0CG8Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=theodore%20roosevelt%20I%20don't%20pity%20any%20man%20who%20does%20hard%20work%20worth%20doing.%20I%20admire%20him.%20I%20pity%20the%20creature%20who%20does%20not%20work%2C%20at%20whichever%20end%20of%20the%20social%20scale%20he%20may%20regard%20himself%20as%20being.&f=false
1900s
“The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”
Diary entry http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/diary.html, (1 March 1981), the first day of his hunger strike, in Skylark Sing your Lonely Song : An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands (1991).
Other writings
“My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.”
Source: Legion