Quotes About Madness

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving...

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

In un mondo folle, ubbidire sembra sempre la soluzione più semplice.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.' Auden noted: 'Man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep.

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA

He]... watches the Joker rising from his wheelchair, the way a rabbit watches car headlights bearing down, unable to move a single, spotlit muscle. The madman's limbs appear to unlatch as though some psychotic god has chosen to give life to a complicated Swiss Army knife. The Joker's head rotates... the green lasers of his eyes target the keys at the big man's belt, and he shakes his head.

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum.

Call it madness or call it self-affirmation but if I can't convince myself I'm great, how will I persuade the Spectators?

If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company.

You really are one mad Irish motherfucker.

There is in you, as there is in me, a morbid belief in love, and a fascination for the madness that love puts in its victims.

I don't know what scares me more, she declared, the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.