Quotes About Madness

All sorts, sir. Natives and foreigners. From gentlemen to 'prentices. I have had Frenchwomen come, before now, and show themselves dabs at pistol-shooting. Mad people out of number, of course, but they go everywhere where the doors stand open.

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Pardon my sanity... in a world insane...

His madness foiled his reason...

Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any thing is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

There is a Pleasure sure In being mad, which none but Mad-men know! Let me indulge it, let me gaze for ever!

All human rules are more or less idiotic, I suppose. It is best so, no doubt. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

That bastard crazy.

Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

A citizen who spiralled down into insanity could spend teratau in a state of confusion and pain, with a mind too damaged to authorise help, or even to choose extinction. That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace.