Quotes About Madness

If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]

As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen astonishment. At the end of the street passers-by turned to look at the young lawyer who threw back his head and laughed at the madness of Fate. Absently he rubbed his left hand where the one-time enemy's hot nut oil in the tunnel had scalded him.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

Die Welt ist in die Hände einer verrückten Irrenärztin gefallen.

Die Vergangenheit löscht man am besten mit einem wahnsinnegen Betragen aus, wenn man sich schon im Irrenhaus befindet.

Nur im Irrenhaus sind wir noch frei. Nur im Irrenhaus durfen wir noch denken. In der Freiheit sind unsere Gedanken Sprengstoff.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Zane didn't make sense. He didn't have to. That was, perhaps, one of the advantages of being insane.

The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.

But must not even a madman rely on his own mind, his own experience, rather than that of others?

Mercury?" Mizzy asked . "Yeah," I said, taking the globe and turning it over. "Isn't that stuff, like, reaaaal bad for you?" "Not sure," I admitted. "It causes madness," Abraham said, than after a moment, "So no big changes for anyone in this particular car.

Anyone could end up drawing a spren, but you learned early that talking to one was pointless. Was he mad? Perhaps he should wish for that - madness was an escape from the pain. Instead, it terrified him.

I am the oldest of four, so I often felt the brunt of the madness, along with the responsibility of protecting my siblings from the unpredictable swings. When things were bad, I was the protector. When things were great, I was the protector-in-waiting, always on the outside of the fun, easily teased for being too serious, and always knowing that we were one sideways glance or one smart-ass comment from chaos.

Well, van Gogh was one of the great painters. During his life he made only 109 dollars in all on his paintings. They are now worth about two million dollars. He had a terribly hard life—loneliness, poverty, and starvation that led to insanity. And yet it was one of the greatest lives that was ever lived—the happiest, the most burningly incandescent

The religion of cheerfulness, as Father Brown reminds us, is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad."2

We all know, in fact, that the insane ... derive a great deal of comfort and consolation from their imagination, that they enjoy their madness sufficiently to endure the thought that its validity does not extend beyond themselves.