Quotes About Madness

The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.

For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.

There is a method to the madness. What they have in common is the search for cause.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Is that a famous saying? Maybe if I say it often enough.

Gli parve che l'unica soluzione potesse essere la follia, nessuna speranza se non la perdita della speranza.

What are you trying to prove? Do you think if you kill enough people in the worst ways imaginable they'll give you a name like the Madman, or the Butcher? It doesn't matter how many abhorrent tortures you devise. You'll always be the Pinhead.

I want an explanation!" "I'll give you one," Maxine said: "You're crazy.

But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.

Sanity is a movable feast. One man's madness is another's politics.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

No one remembered the unfortunate who had lent his name to the cabin. He lived long enough to embody qualities before being undone by them. Off to Hob with those who had been crippled by the overseers' punishments, off to Hob with those who had been broken by the labor in ways you could see and in ways you could not see, off to Hob with those who had lost their wits. Off to Hob with strays.

A book collector is mad enough to begin with, Watson; but tempt him with some such bait as this Shakespeare quarto and he is bereft of all sanity.

My son, from whence this madness, this neglect Of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.

What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?

Such were my wild words, for madness had mastered my judgement and gained complete control.

What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?

Quis furor iste novus?

a heart that is maddened with love

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

when suddenly, as if a shelf were shot forth and she stood on it, she said how she was his wife, married years ago in Milan, his wife, and would never, never tell that he was mad

extremes of feeling are allied to madness;