“We're gonna make it all the way to the light,
but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
Source: Ten Things We Did
“We're gonna make it all the way to the light,
but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper “Innovation in Physics” (Scientific American, 199, No. 3, September 1958, pp. 74-82; reprinted in "JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta-You Wu," edited by Jong-Ping Hsu & Leonardo Hsu, Singapore; River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1998, pp. 73-90, here: p. 84).
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
As quoted in First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything (2007) by Spencer Scoular, p. 89
There are many slight variants on this remark:
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough to be have a chance of being correct.
We in the back are convinced your theory is crazy. But what divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
Your theory is crazy, the question is whether it's crazy enough to be true.
Yes, I think that your theory is crazy. Sadly, it's not crazy enough to be believed.
“Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”
Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature
Source: Life is Elsewhere
“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Fiona Apple (1977) singer-songwriter, musician
Forever Fiona http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/celebrities/forever-fiona-2, interview by Liza Ghorbani (June 7, 2012)
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”
Gene Wolfe book Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
"The Adopted Father", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Fiction
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“Those nuts that burn their bras and walk around all disheveled and hate men? They’re crazy. Crazy.”
Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
Fallaci interview (1973)
“They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Watching the inhabitants of the house trying to ward off the vampire
Dracula (1931)