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Quotes About Madness

My mother was mad, as I suppose I too am now mad. What else can people be who have their entire lives snatched away from them, and for no greater crime than being what they are? The choking, stifling unfairness of it is a permanent sore -- one that can be lived with but never forgotten.
~ Tad Williams
Peer into the eye of Jinn ad see your future Listen to the whispering of a Jinn and go insane. Morrocan proverb.
~ Tahir Shah
Are you dippy, and all that sort of thing? Bats in the belfry—what? My word!" Marlowe stepped nearer to him and spoke in a lower voice. "Suppose, Mr. Warwick
~ Talmage Powell
I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.
~ Tamora Pierce
So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took? Aly smiled. I'm told it runs in the family.
~ Tamora Pierce
It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?
~ Tamora Pierce
Azhrarn the Beautiful, said Chuz lovingly, it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
~ Tanith Lee
Down the stairs again leapt Art. She whirled across the lower landing, her head full of barking cannon, towering rigging, the creak of timbers, the voice of her mother, Molly. Before her eyes floated the golden oasts of Amer Rica, Persis, and Zanzibari, dolphins springing like silver bullets from the blue mouths of the waves. 'Her father must be fetched!' shouted Miss Eeble. 'She has gone mad!' 'Sane,' remarked Art. 'Gone sane.
~ Tanith Lee
I see that. Where am I?' 'You are quite secure, Rachaela. You have all of us.' Rachaela quailed. 'But you're all mad.' Anna smiled her smile. 'What can I say to that.
~ Tanith Lee
A peacock, a leopard, a prince he saw himself through shining haze. Others could only pierce that haze and reach him by processes of rage or insult or rivalry or some deep and personal intrusion. He was perverse and knew it and gloried in it. Others feared him for his madness. Others fearfully admired him. Perhaps he himself was one of these.
~ Tanith Lee
It's been said that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. A large sum of cash can create illusions of endless wealth, especially if it's a new experience.
~ Taylor Larimore
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
~ Ted Dekker
We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.
~ Ted Dekker
Parecía especializarse en causas perdidas. Perderlas primero y después largarse atrás como un loco.
~ Julio Cortazar
Sometimes I am convinced that triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog.
~ Julio Cortazar
Lo había dicho sin pensarlo, es decir que estaba más que pensado, venía de un territorio donde las palabras eran como los locos en la clínica, entes amenazadores o absurdos viviendo una vida propia y aislada, saltando de golpe sin que nada pudiera atajarlos.
~ Julio Cortazar
nos dimos cuenta casi al mismo tiempo que ciertas estructuras soñadas serían formas corrientes de locura a poco que continuaran en la vigilia.
~ Julio Cortazar
I'm getting close to ubiquity, and going crazy is just one step away
~ Julio Cortazar
A veces me convenzo de que la estupidez se llama triángulo, de que ocho por ocho es la locura o un perro.
~ Julio Cortazar
No cualquiera se vuelve loco, esas cosas hay que merecerlas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da iza?e iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji ne?e biti onaj razum ?iji je nedostatak ludilo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Genius and lunacy were well known to be next-door neighbours.
~ Julius Meier-Graefe
Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.
~ Junji Ito