Quotes About Madness

The most remarkable thing I have observed since I came abroad, is, that there are no people so obviously mad as the English.

La locura, cuando se le estrujan los dedos, hace piruetas increíbles, que dan vértigos, y es fuerte como el amor y la muerte.

But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

The implants just give you a new set of reproductive-free imperatives, that's all. The rest, thank the gods, is up to you. They wouldn't be worth anything if they didn't give rise to the most troubling and complex problems of the heart. They are what makes all this glory, this madness worthwhile. We are born to the trouble as sparks fly upwards, that is what is great about us, man, woman, transgen, nute.

Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.

Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb experiments were beyond their comprehension. They could not figure out why a person is incarcerated in a mental asylum when he turns mad and why when a nation turns mad, we start calling it a Power

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep.

Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water.... In the scream of a flood, consummate carvings are left behind. Careful scallops are taken from the faces of canyons. This is not random work. It is artistry distilled from madness.

We're Irish, Jake, which means heredity carries us halfway to madness smack out of the womb.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I think insanity runs in the family. Hell, it practically gallops.

It is difficult to confront madness, because insanity is a stranger to reason and any reasonable response would be insane.

our days are no different from the past, except in the number of tyrants, their systematic methods and the cold logic with which they lead the world to madness

Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece's, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece's had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn't care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn't have made me happier.

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Mr. Silver's letter was rather curt. He merely said that the one pound shares were standing at two and sixpence. The fact was, Mr. Silver was annoyed with Miss Harburn and extremely worried about his own five hundred pounds which, in a moment of madness, he had invested in Coribundas and which he could ill-afford to lose. Julia was not in the least worried, she was excited. It was thrilling, a sort of gamble—like putting money on a horse, but much safer, of course.

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.