Quotes About Madness

THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS

but incredibly angry and really, really crazy.

a madman's line of fire.

The guy's got a CCI sheet so long it begins with 'Call me Ishmael.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?

What was a surprise was when the dog answered his question. 'Want to play ball now,' Gabriel [the dog] declared in a very clear and precise voice. Aaron opened his eyes and gazed up into the grinning face of the animal. There was no doubt now. The day's descent into madness was complete. He was, in fact, losing his mind.

I am never better than when I am mad: then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

Crazy people do crazy things.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist")

It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.