Quotes About Madness

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

A mad man sees what he sees.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

Men must go out of their minds.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.