Quotes About Madness

Nebunia înseamn? uneori în?elepciune.

So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?" "I do not," said Francis. "Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

Great wits are near to madness, closely allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It doesn't drive me mad. It makes me mad.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Now, now-don't strain that magnificent brain of yours trying to work out my motives-we have a lunatic clank to destroy!

Are you crazy?! Oh, wait! Of course you are!

The shaking had stopped, outwardly, but her mind couldn't hold a thought for any length of time without splintering apart. She took a deep breath, thought of a cliff above the sea, the taste of figs on her tongue, a man's finger touching the jut of her wrist, the sea so blue she thought it might drive her mad though she understood nothing of madness then

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role.

The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.

If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.

the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.

They thought I was mad, and Russians are always sympathetic with mad men.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

The slumber of reason breeds monsters.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

They found Caddo in the lounge of Oridin's house chewing on a book of logarithms. His mind was gone. He could only babble figures. His fingers twitched with cramps from writing with a pencil and punching the keys of the calculating machine.

when I think of all the things I've been thinking of I feel insane