Quotes About Madness

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out. . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

They say there is a fine line between genius & insanity....so I picked it up & went fishing

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

Indeed, the commotion of the spirits and humors may be so great that such appearances may even occur to those who are awake, as is seen in mad people, and the like. So, as this happens by a natural disturbance of the humors, and sometimes also by the will of man who voluntarily imagines what he previously experienced, so also the same may be done by the power of a good or a bad angel, sometimes with alienation from the bodily senses, sometimes without such alienation.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

Polemical divinity," says he to Dr. Moore in 1787, "about this time was putting the country half mad; and I, ambitious of shining in conversation-parties on Sundays, at funerals, etc., used to puzzle Calvinism with so much heat and indiscretion, that I raised a hue-and-cry of heresy against me, which has not ceased to this hour.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

Nada tenía sentido en su plan. Pero ¿qué más daba? Muy de vez en cuando, todo el mundo tenía derecho a cometer alguna locura, y ahora era su turno.

Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would be remembered when they looked at you, they would say to themselves or to whomever they were with, It's his father, you know, the crazy one, the drunk, and they couldn't help but wonder what part of his madness had passed on to you, which part you had escaped.

The crowd has gone mad and they have every right to do so,' Barry Davies pronounced memorably on Match of the Day that night; those were the days, when TV commentators actively encouraged riots rather than argued pompously for the return of National Service.