Quotes About Madness

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

They would nod their heads and quote complacently the old saw that a Captain in the Royal Navy is always mad, and a Commander always going mad, and they smiled with pleasure if he so much as noticed them.

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters.xxi

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. —MARK TWAIN

Geoff stared into Eric's vacant eyes and thought seriously about going into a mad panic: the sort of panic where you pull your hair out, eat some of it, then run around the room with your pants on your head screaming like a girl.

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley

Rüyalar?m?z, bir delinin uyan?k ?uurundaki abuk sabuk hayallerin tecellisinden ba?ka nedir? Hepimiz günün bir k?sm?nda, yani uyurken deliriyoruz ve belki de akl?n çemberinden, s?k?nt?s?ndan kurtulan ruhumuz böylelikle dinleniyor. Biz rüyalar?m?zda ç?ld?r?yoruz, deliler uyan?kken rüya görüyorlar.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Diz-se que a loucura é simplesmente a capacidade de ver o futuro. E se soubéssemos agora o que saberemos então, provavelmente seria suficiente para nos pôr a todos aos gritos. Na vida, o segredo é manter as duas coisas separadas o maior tempo possível.

Hmm. That's what I suspected, you mad bastard.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.