Quotes About Madness

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine.… it's a sort of madness.…

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Love can make people do funny things, inexplicable things. And thwarted love can turn some people into madmen--or madwomen. People who never had much of a grip on reality, sometimes they spin pretty illusions ... and when the illusion shatters, they become capable of anything.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you," he

There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

Why? The ease with which he manipulates words is his greatest talent. Was his difficulty a result of his torture? Something more? Like madness?

He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.

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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

Wondering and writing constitute positive madness.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

Blood and wine are interchangeable. Love and hate are unrecognizable. Sanity is no longer with me.