Quotes About Madness

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.

Ona ih je sve zalu?ivala, jer su ludi ro?eni, varala, jer su želeli da budu prevareni, i na kraju, uzimala im samo ono što su i ina?e bili rešeni da bace i izgube.

It's lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn't apply to retail.

Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer and gift buying in December? ....... When would it end?

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

Weren't they a pair? Roarke thought, two veteran cops who've waded through blood and madness. But put a bit of sex on the table between them, and they're as fidgety as virgins at an orgy.

Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer and gift buying in December? When would it end?