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Quotes About Madness

I general brzo isprazni ?ašu. Jer kamo razuman ?ovjek može pobje?i kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.
~ Karen Blixen
What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?
~ Karen Essex
I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.
~ Karen Miller
In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness, With darkness to pattern man's fate. The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue - For the blackness of Evil knows various shades, Full many as Evil has names. Vengeance and Madness, inseparable twins, Born together and worshipped as one; Nor can the Gods tell one from his brother. In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness And darkness weaves with many shades.
~ Karl Edward Wagner
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
~ Kate Atkinson
Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would feel for a child one day), merely the false grandeur of madness.
~ Kate Atkinson
Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.
~ Kate Atkinson
The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
~ John Bunyan
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
~ Sean Penn
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
~ Voltaire
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
~ Andre Gide
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
~ John Webster
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
~ Graham Swift
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
~ Philip K. Dick
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
~ Rafael Sabatini
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!
~ Rumi
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
~ Andre Maurois
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
~ Anne Bronte
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson