Quotes About Madness

Enfermé dans le navire, d'où on n'échappe pas, le fou est confié à la rivière aux mille bras, à la mer aux mille chemins, à cette grande incertitude extérieure à tout. Il est prisonnier au milieu de la plus libre, de la plus ouverte des routes : solidement enchaîné à l'infini carrefour. Il est le Passager par excellence, c'est-à-dire le prisonnier du Passage.

Mr. Gabriel is clearly insane, evil and dangerous and insane (and let's not forget, you know, a demon).

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.

A hideg és a félelem állandóan útitársamul szegÅ'dött, valósággal megtébolyított.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

Wszyscy jesteÅ›my do?? niezrównowa?eni...

Ah, so?!' Ivan said, turning around with a wild and hunted look. 'Well, then… Goodbye!' And he rushed head first into the windowblind. The crash was rather forceful, but the glass behind the blind gave no crack, and in an instant Ivan Nikolaevich was struggling in the hands of the orderlies. He gasped, tried to bite, shouted: 'So that's the sort of windows you've got here!

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason?

Furthermore, the way in which the two (Freud and Jung) corresponds invoke Fliess's ghost leaves no doubt on the subject. They threaten each other with it between the lines, they frighten each other with it, and they do so because they know (but with a secret, esoteric knowledge that never goes beyond the bounds of the private correspondence) that Fliess had gone mad owing to his correspondence with Freud.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Yes, it's crazy.Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Y así es como funciona el mundo que nos rodea. Si insistiese en decirle la verdad a la cara, eso significaría que me lo tomo en serio. Y tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad. Yo, hermano, tengo que mentir si no quiero tomarme en serio a los locos y convertirme yo mismo en uno de los locos.

Un hombre que va por la orilla del mar agitando enloquecidamente con el brazo extendido un farol puede ser un loco. Pero si es de noche y entre las olas hay una barca perdida, ese mismo hombre es un salvador.

Sólo una razón nada razonable puede conducir a un horror tan irracional.

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she's madly mated.

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

He's around the twist, ' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.