Quotes About Madness

It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit. It makes you want to overthrow the world. On a daily basis.

We're basically nuts. Human beings, we're basically insane.

a lunatic, but eccentric behavior isn't proof of madness. According to the law, insanity is a disease of the mind that prevents someone from being aware of what he does and whether his actions are wrong.

Be ye mad, woman?

Whenever we passed the place [Dix Hill, the local state mental hospital], my sisters and I would stick our heads out the car window, expecting to hear a hysterical voice cackling, "I'm mad, I tell you, MAD!" The patient would embrace his lunacy as though it were a treasure he had discovered hidden beneath the floor-boards. "Mad! mad!

Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.

in some sort of mad spasm of suicidal fury.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

To make some sense of life –to prevent ourselves from going mad– we have one ready means of escape, and that is to dance while we can.

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

You dream… or you're driven mad.

he wanted to understand to the very end —Pascal's night —the nature of a diamond —the melancholy of the prophets —Achille's wrath —the madness of those who kill —the dreams of Mary Stuart —Neanderthal fear —the despair of the last Aztecs —Nietzsche's long death throes —the joy of the painter of Lascaux —the rise and fall of an oak —the rise and fall of Rome

This is madness. You're making it into something it's not. It's all in your mind. Sheba was about to protest, and then she laughed. Isn't that the worst place it could be?

World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy.

para la gente vulgar la genialidad se parece a la locura.

The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Anger is a brief madness.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is a short madness.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Anger is short-lived madness.