Quotes About Madness

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Bill had always been a placid pond of a friend with a few boulders of madness lurking beneath the surface, but unlike me he knew how to keep the jagged edges out of sight.

He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is – and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.

AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream. (Page 13).

Sul livello malva, accovacciato su onde di un magenta più scuro che nascondevano la sua forma arcuata, il pazzo attendeva.

Inwardly: alone. Here. Living. under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream.

Und er ging auf die Suche nach dem Wahnsinnigen, der seinen Namen in Großbuchstaben schrieb.

He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch—wasn't crazy—mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.

Pero cuando te falla un hombre que ha vivido conforme a la verdad, y has creído en lo que ha vivido, te quedas sin nada. Creo que por eso estoy a punto de volverme loca…». —¿Nueva

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

No existe en ninguna parte del mundo real nada tan bello como las fantasías que alberga quien ha perdido la cordura.

Anyone in their right mind would never undertake to write a novel in the first place. Given the circumstances, therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to be deranged as long as you are aware of that fact.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Ordinary he was insane, But he had lucid moments when he was merely Stupid.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.