Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter
"Ain't That Pretty At All", written by Warren Zevon and LeRoy Marinell
The Envoy (1982)
“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”
§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
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Nigella Lawson (1960) British food writer, journalist and broadcaster
Regarding her second book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
A woman of extremes (2001)
Constance Wu (1982) American actress
As quoted in "Constance Wu Doesn’t Want to Be Your “It” Girl" in Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2016/06/constance-wu-c-v-r.html
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
“Stirner … holds to a joy-principle rather than to a pleasure-principle.”
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 143
“There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
Context: My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.