Quotes About Madness

It will finish badly when she dries out, I suppose, and probably end with madness, but almost everything does.

I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling. "Truth, truth." Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, but it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Stark raving sane.

The God Gone Mad.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Cielo santo, una bestia con una espada —siseó la criatura. Giró de nuevo la cabeza hasta colocarla del derecho y parpadeó dos veces—. Me pregunto si ha perdido el juicio. ¡Las espadas pasaron de moda hace siglos!

He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares.

Quizá la verdadera locura no sea otra cosa que la sabiduría misma que, cansada de descubrir las vergüenzas del mundo ha tomado la inteligente resolución de volverse loca

Los locos son una terrible equivocación de la Naturaleza; son las faltas de ortografía de Dios.

Ah! Qué terrible es el sino de los pobres locos, esos 'renglones torcidos', esos yerros, esas faltas de ortografía del Creador, como los llamaba 'el Autor de la Teoría de los Nueve Mundos', ignorante de que él era uno de los más torcidos de todos los renglones de la caligrafía divina!

Tengo miedo de pensar! -¡Pues no piense! ¡Es así de fácil! ¡Los que piensan, enloquecen! ¡Yo no pienso nunca! Por eso estoy sana.

Locura? - Conflicto entre el yo real y el anhelado

Este palacio estaba reservado a la más alta aristocracia de la locura, a la sangre azul de los perturbados, a los linajudos de las demencias.

I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.

Nope. Too Much," Marin said, and tossed the little man out of the hospital window. She needed coffee. Either that or a large dose of Thorazine.

As she walked, the horror stories she'd heard from Felix and the others became real. This is what their underground efforts were fighting against. These camps, these guards, were reality to thousands of people... Reality to the person who had just made the trip up the chimney. If they did not stop this madness, it would be the end of them all.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.

Every future that spirals out of every choice you and every other dragon make for the rest of your life? Can't you hear yourself? It's impossible, dearest. That way lies madness.

Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

What I most fear is that they think me frail. Frail! It is a word that I hate . Call me mad, if you must; but never frail.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

It's a madhouse, of course. A complete, utter madhouse. I only hope to God it remains one.