Quotes About Madness

E che cos'altro è, infine, questo ideale della società moderna se non l'antico sogno del povero e dell'indigente, che può avere un fascino finchè rimane sogno, ma diventa il paradiso di un pazzo non appena è realizzato?

Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravity. Their own force of attractions. Drawing near and holding fast to whatever entered their own atmosphere ... they would find love and lost love and recover from love and love again.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

You just have to trust your own madness.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

A fierce possessiveness gripped him, a need to brand her, to make her his, now and forever. And he knew it was madness.

One is very crazy when in love.

like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies.

Had Don Quixote been simply and plainly mad, or had he indulged in a protracted game of self-deception and play-acting, we should not be talking of him now, Van Doren observes—"We are talking of him because we suspect that, in the end, he did become a knight.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.

It's not your uncle Harvey again, is it?" I said. "The one who thinks he's a giant rabbit?

Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to this city's asylum, suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a madness of anticipation, disappointment and delusion.

You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.