Quotes About Madness

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.

Fou, très fou! Why, in New Orleans I would have finished

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man--given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

We're all mad, dear lady," he said as he ushered her in through the door. "That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

A madman is a very dangerous thing.

In my day if a man was mad he was mad and we didn't look about for scientific terms to soften it down.

After you've fallen in love with a man and married him and got used to his ways and settled down comfortably—to go and throw it all up and start again! It seems to me madness.

There just didn't seem anyone else who could have done it. I thought perhaps he'd gone a little mad." "Did he ever seem to you a little—what shall I say—queer?" "Oh no. Not queer in that way. He was just shy and awkward as anyone might be. The truth was, he didn't make the best of himself. He hadn't confidence in himself.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

A madman is as logical and reasoned in his actions as a sane man—given his peculiar biased point of view.

what is madness? I can assure you that the more we study the subject, the more difficult we find it to pronounce. We all practise a certain amount of self-deception, and when we carry it so far as to believe we are the Czar of Russia, we are shut up or restrained. But there is a long road before we reach that point. At what particular spot on it shall we erect a post and say, 'On this side sanity, on the other madness?

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.

U moje vreme ako je neko bio lud, bio je lud, i nismo se služili nau?nom terminologijom da bismo to ublažili.

I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness

It is love—friendship—that sustains us, even in the worst of times, under the worst of circumstances. Even when we have been driven mad. Even when we have killed. We still love. We are still worthy of love. We can still be loved. —Daphne Gottlieb San Francisco

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.