Quotes About Madness

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

Maybe the mad don't need to sleep. Maybe their insanity is all they require to sustain them.

People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.

It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.

She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad. I turn my face towards it and I laugh. Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad. I laugh again. Some people think that she's already mad, I think.

Being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But Maybe the best thing that we do, and the best thing that we are, come from madness.

Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn't really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn't really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.

Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

human beings, for better or worse, were undeniably social creatures. Without interaction they went mad.

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

This is a mad planet, David Bowie said in 1971. It's doomed to madness.

Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin the world.

Yet egotism can also be useful to ambitious creatures, driving their single-minded pursuit of success. Madness seems essential in order to be "great.

Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit? Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness? You're not going to go mad, she said firmly. Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

Your personal tastes are going to be influenced by the stories that you've loved the most. So don't ever try to be "completely" original. It's a good way to go mad.

It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

Apeshit has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.

What if in fact there were ever only two really distinct individual people walking around back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type One, always rather Two, one upside-down in a convex lens.