Quotes About Madness

The underlying notion of a world where the sane is insane

What it is It is madness says reason It is what it is says love It is unhappiness says caution It is nothing but pain says fear It has no future says insight It is what it is says love It is ridiculous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

I'm so used to absolute freedom. I can shit anywhere. I can piss anywhere. I can take drugs. I can kill things. But in there I was nothing," he says. "For the first time in my life I felt what Ned Kelly felt. The last month has been hell. I don't think I was that mad. My own illness is news to me. They say that I'm borderline bipolar. That was odd – not to have the diagnosis but to swallow the diagnosis.

Fireheart froze. He wanted to protest, but could find no words. The rest of the Clan was just as silent, except for Yellowfang, who muttered, "He's mad.

Alpha's muzzle curled in disbelief, but he went on watching Fiery intently. "Mad? In what way?" "Insane," Fiery told him. "Like a dog with the water-madness"—at this several Packmembers gasped and growled nervously—"but not that. His jaws foamed and he had fits, but he was in control. Very much in control. He rules his Pack with fear.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

William Styron's book 'Memoirs in Madness'. She underlined nearly the whole thing.

It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you.

And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky's the limit!

Decades of scrupulous and unrelenting pragmatism carried us here. The minimum necessary for survival now counts as madness. The courses of action still deemed practical will usher us straight down the path that leads to our own deaths.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

His mind had been unhinged by the blast of detonators, nights spent with corpses and by the superstitious incredulity of having killed so many white men.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

Gracias a Dios!, al fin salió esa loca.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

If you've got 30 people standing in a very small room with about 10 lights in 40 degree heat and 98% humidity, there's no air and it starts to drive you a bit mad!

Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus . And rest assured that it works.

Just as Amy took the credit for making me my best self, I had to take the blame for bringing the madness to bloom in Amy. There were a million men who would have loved, honored, and obeyed Amy and considered themselves lucky to do so. Confident, self-assured, real men who wouldn't have forced her to pretend to be anything but her own perfect, rigid, demanding, brilliant, creative, fascinating, rapacious, megalomaniac self.

Sei pazza a pensare quel che stai pensando. Sei pazza a non pensarlo.

De modo que puede que haya perdido la cabeza.