Quotes About Madness

My lord," she whispered, "have you gone mad?" "Yes. Yes.

Yes.' Cam paused. 'The Rom would say you were a man who grieved too much. You trapped your beloved's soul in the in-between.' 'Either that, or I went mad.' 'Love is a form of madness, isn't it?' Cam asked prosaically.

Moby-Dick for Nothing

I was touched by the millennial madness.

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane !

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

No sé la razón de la sinrazón que a mi razón aqueja

Lydia's madness is a watery madness, gentle, full of seagulls and lobsters.

However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.

Who loves, raves.

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.

We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.

if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earth-quake-they say Poets never or rarely go mad...but are generally so near it-that I cannot help thinking rhyme is so far useful in anticipating & preventing the disorder.

I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

Ona je bila posjedni?ki nastrojena... i to zbog njega. To prekrasno, ludo stvorenje — ili slijepo i gluho stvorenje, Å¡togod bila — hladnokrvno je to izjavilo kao da govori: »Dodaj mi solenku«, bez imalo svijesti da se Zemljina os upravo snažno nagnula.

That this woman talking to him had large, melting brown eyes and long brown hair the color of a doe's, on a face meant for an artist's canvas, all attached to a nifty little compact body that could tempt the gods meant nothing. She was insane.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts.

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?