Quotes About Lunacy

It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

His guilt slowly seeped away. His body metabolized it, like alcohol. And she colluded in his lunacy.

She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.

How are you going to build a wall across rivers? Across desert sand and mountains? What about the devastation to the environment? What about the wild animals that live in or around the border, whose migration patterns have already been disrupted and will die of thirst and starvation? The plan is lunacy.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Before that night, I'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy.

Whenever we passed the place [Dix Hill, the local state mental hospital], my sisters and I would stick our heads out the car window, expecting to hear a hysterical voice cackling, "I'm mad, I tell you, MAD!" The patient would embrace his lunacy as though it were a treasure he had discovered hidden beneath the floor-boards. "Mad! mad!

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

You saved him, Evie, on the night you offered to marry him. Which is evidence, I suppose, that moments of lunacy can occasionally lead to positive results.

Speaking through one of his characters in the novel Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco makes the following alltoo-true observation: "For him, everything proves everything else. The Lunatic is all idée fixé, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

if there weren't war, lunacy, perversity, sickness, imbecility, suicide, and death, chances were he'd be in a lot better shape.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

Although Panthea's claim that our adversaries were older than the universe sounded like lunacy

There are some loony people in this world!

A raving loony. She must be," Billy

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

You humans are crazy.

The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself—either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

If you have a passion for food then it's not only your life and your avocation but it's also your vocation and maybe that's the lunacy.