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Quotes About Madness

La esperanza podía trastornar a una persona hasta hacerla rozar la locura.
~ Laura Gallego García
Hemos perdido a Shail, y Alsan se ha convertido en algo... que no puedo describir. Y también he estado a punto de perderte a ti, y, si eso hubiera sucedido... me habría vuelto loco-confesó, mirándola con seriedad.
~ Laura Gallego García
She is ancientness. She has lived forever. It has driven her insane.
~ Laura Kasischke
Madness comes to us all. Even you.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
Y sin embargo todo aquello todavía no era la locura, y si lo era, se estaba apenas anunciando.
~ Laura Restrepo
Maybe it didn't matter how he was crazy, only the fact that he was, the fact that he wanted someone to be crazy with him.
~ Laura Ruby
That chick is certifiably out of her fucking tree. -Isaac
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~ Cesare Lombroso
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Charles A. Beard
"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."
~ Charles Baudelaire
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The crazy ones are mostly crazy because love made them that way.
~ Charles Baxter
A train thunders by late at night, you gaze idly at the dark rushing mass, you see a patch of light and within that patch of light, a face; in a wink of time it is gone - but, having seen it, you know it will never be gone, you know you will see that face in your dreams perhaps forever. Such is the insubstantial stuff of which fiction - or madness - is made.
~ Charles Beaumont
The sleek locks, neat apparel, pacific guise, sobriety and gentleness of aspect by which I was customarily distinguished, would in vain be sought in the apparition which would now present itself before them. My legs, neck, and bosom were bare, and their native hue was exchanged for the livid marks of bruises and scarifications. A horrid scar upon my cheek, and my uncombed locks; hollow eyes, made ghastly by abstinence and cold . . . would prepossess them with the notion of a maniac or ruffian.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
~ Charles Bukowski
Revolution sounds very romantic, you know, but it ain't. it's blood and guts and madness; it's little kids killed who get in the way, it's little kids who don't understand what the fuck is going on. it's your whore, your wife ripped in the belly with a bayonet and then raped in the a** while you watch. it's men torturing men who used to laugh at Mickey Mouse cartoons.
~ Charles Bukowski
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below. (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous.)
~ Charles de Leusse
It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam.
~ Charles Dickens
Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos, la edad de la sabiduría, y también de la locura; la época de las creencias y de la incredulidad; la era de la luz y de las tinieblas; la primavera de la esperanza y el invierno de la desesperación. Todo lo poseíamos, pero no teníamos nada;
~ Charles Dickens
Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
~ Charles Dickens
have you taken leave of your senses
~ Charles Dickens
Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
~ Charles Dickens
It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.' 'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry. 'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am.
~ Charles Dickens
was a ward myself. I was not mad at that time," curtsying low and smiling between every little sentence. "I had youth and hope. I believe, beauty. It matters very little now. Neither of the three served or saved me. I have the honour to attend court regularly. With my documents. I expect a judgment. Shortly. On the Day of Judgment. I have discovered that the sixth seal mentioned in the Revelations is the Great Seal.
~ Charles Dickens