Quotes About Madness

Maybe he wasn't mad, maybe he was just crazy..

A superior fighter pilot is made up of one part skill, one part attitude, one part aggression, and one part madness.

I may be mad, he thought, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next may offer.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself. ROS: Or just as mad. GUIL: Or just as mad. ROS: And he does both. GUIL: So there you are. ROS: Stark raving sane.

The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.

The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.

At first the people in the town were frightened; they knew Shadrack was crazy but that did not mean that he didn't have any sense or, even more important, that he had no power. [...] Once the people understood the boundaries and nature of his madness, they could fit him, so to speak, into the scheme of things.

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

Shandrack estaba loco, pero eso no significaba que sus palabras no tuvieran sentido o, cosa aún más importante, que no tuvieran poder.

mad monk, minus the spiritual insight.

Ik deed mijn nachtlampje uit en kroop onder mijn dekbed. Wat was eigenlijk erger? Gek zijn of echt terug in de tijd springen? Vermoedelijk het laatste, dacht ik. Tegen dat andere kon je misschien nog wel een pilletje slikken.

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I don't hate you 'cause I'm crazy... I'm crazy 'cause I hate you.

El mundo entero ha enloquecido. ¡Deje que enloquezca! ¿Qué importa si matan a mil personas más?

Love is always a species of insanity. If

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impressive written on a form by a commissioner of lunacy as you're turned over to the hospitallers of St Mary of Bedlam to be dunked in ice water because your latest 'scrape' was running starkers down Oxford Street while gibbering like a baboon.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more. The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.

I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

Together Noriko we'll live with the sadness.I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place. Where we really want to and we'll walk in the sun. But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run.

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

Mi libro se quedará solo danzando desordenado y loco su danza sonámbula

Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than anyone in life and yet be driven mad by her presence