Quotes About Madness

I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.

Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.

In the brain of a madman only the fuming present exists, with its endless shouting urges, paranoid speculations, and grandiose assumptions.

The world's most brilliant confabulators are in asylums.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining

What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then?

Another blast from Rivenrock shivered the air. It snatched Mhoram's head up, and he faced Covenant with tears streaming down his cheeks. It is as I have said, he breathed achingly. Madness is not the only danger in dreams.

He did not want to talk to anyone until he had had more time to think. But at the same time he did not want to be alone. The threat of madness was always at its worst when he was alone.

Even prophets and madmen require sustenance.

Geniuses don't go mad," he said. "That's what people don't understand. They get out so far out that the water is like glass and they can see for miles and see so much, and in ways people have never seen before.

The standard explanation of the madness of crowds is ignorance: a mediocre education system has left the populace scientifically illiterate, at the mercy of their cognitive biases, and thus defenseless against airhead celebrities, cable-news gladiators, and other corruptions from popular culture.

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Love is merely a madness.

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.