Quotes About Madness

Dentro y solo de nuevo, y la locura de la noche la locura del día.

Certains ne deviennent jamais fous... Leurs vies doivent être bien ennuyeuses

Entiéndeme. No soy como un mundo ordinario. Tengo mi locura, vivo en otra dimensión y no tengo tiempo para cosas sin alma

Examinar la propia mente es lo peor que puede hacer un loco.

ama yine de biliyordum (iki paral?k deliliÄŸime raÄŸmen) ortal?kta muhteÅŸem olarak nitelendirilen çok kötü bir edebiyat?n dolaÅŸt???n?, o Philly çat?s?n?n alt?nda yapabileceÄŸimden çok da iyi olmayan bir edebiyat.

kimi beynini yitirip ruha dönüÅŸür: deli. kimi ruhunu yitirip beyne dönüÅŸür: entelektüel. kimi ikisini de yitirir ve kabul görür.

os loucos e os bêbados são os últimos santos que sobraram na Terra.

Anything goes now, apparently," Fiedel told me. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Toda era tem sua loucura peculiar; algum plano, projeto ou fantasia em que mergulha, estimulada pelo amor do ganho, pela necessidade de emoção ou pela simples força da imitação. Se tudo isso falhar, ela ainda assim possui uma loucura, a que é incitada por causas políticas ou religiosas, ou por ambas combinadas. (from O mundo assombrado pelos demônios: A ciência vista como uma vela no escuro by Carl Sagan, Charles Mackay)

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.

I'm not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.

Autarchies had been shattered, hermit kingdoms destroyed. Almost a billion had died in war, plague, starvation, and madness. But worse was yet to come, as what passed for civilization on this world guttered and faded beneath the penumbra of a darkness deeper than eternal night.

It is those possessed by sublime madness who keep alive another way of being. W. H. Auden captured the solitude and even futility of such a life at the end of his poem "September 1, 1939." Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.32 ———

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Then, then, will fury leave us, he will cease from those red channels of our life he has so often run, another sort of worm will work at that great vine, whereat he fed. Then, then, indeed, he must give over, fold his camp, retreat; there is no place for madness in a dead man's brain, no place for hunger in a dead man's flesh, and in a dead man's heart there is a place for no desire. At

Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.

La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.

One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at everybody else?' I shook my head. 'They weren't mad exactly. Some people wanted one thing, other people wanted another thing.' 'What did you want?' 'Nothing,' I said. 'To stay alive.' 'That's all?' 'Yes.

but though desert foxes were considered lawful to eat, bin Jalawi told him that it would be madness to kill one in the region around Wabar. "Here they might be the old citizens," bin Jalawi said. "'Honor him who has been great and is fallen, and him who has been rich and is now poor.

I'm in the business of useless beauty, he says. And I'm happy with that. I don't think art needs an excuse to exist. We need beauty in our lives, so we don't go mad.

But Mount Tantiss was gone, destroyed by agents of the New Republic and C'baoth's own madness and treason. And Grand Admiral Thrawn was dead. And the Empire was dying.

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.