"In the eyes of society it will truly be
insanity," he replied.
"The psychological conception [of insanity] is based on the view that mental processes can be directly studied without any reference to the accompanying changes which are presumed to take place in the brain, and that
insanity may therefore be properly attacked from the standpoint of psychology"(p.
The unaccustomed coarse food, the vodka he drank during those days, the absence of wine and cigars, his dirty unchanged linen, two almost sleepless nights passed on a short sofa without bedding- all this kept him in a state of excitement bordering on
insanity.
Greedily sucking in this intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the white whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering
insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible.
As Cowper's life went on, the terrible lapses into
insanity became more frequent, but his sweet and kindly temper won him many friends, and he still wrote a great deal.
Monsieur de Sucy took care to keep secret the motive for this tragic imitation, which was talked of in several Parisian circles as a proof of
insanity.
He soon exhibited what most people considered indubitable tokens of
insanity. In some of his moods, strange to say, he prided and gloried himself on being marked out from the ordinary experience of mankind, by the possession of a double nature, and a life within a life.
"I see the cunning of
insanity, the suspicion of
insanity, the feline treachery of
insanity in every line of this deplorable document.
There was a gleam of something akin to
insanity in her full, intense eyes.
I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save myself from the suspicion of
insanity. My memory of the Law, of the two dead sailors, of the ambuscades of the darkness, of the body in the canebrake, haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange enhancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island.
He called his period of
insanity six months' hard labour.
It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and
insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
He heard me to the end -- at first laughed heartily -- and then lapsed into an excessively grave demeanor, as if my
insanity was a thing beyond suspicion.
One or two of the Kru boys seemed on the verge of
insanity - Francis himself was hysterical and faint.
Her hair straggled, giving her crimson features a look of
insanity. Her great fists quivered as she shook them madly in the air.
