Quotes About Madness

My laboratory," I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. "Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hah-hahhhhhh'?

You have a plan," she stated. "I have a plan." "What's the plan, Harry?" I told her. She looked at me for a second and then said, "You're crazy." "Be positive, Murph. You call it crazy. I call it unpredictable." She pursed her lips thoughtfully for a second and then said, "I can't go any higher than insane.

My definition of LUNATIC ASYLUM: A place where lunatics are created.

I admired the way she was staying a single step in front of her madness in the way that so many of us do by merely watching the clock where each tick brings us safely over the lip of the future, our madness a split second behind us.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so, to keep from going mad. And then disaster strikes. God, how we love disaster.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total. Todos os sucedidos acontecendo, o sentir forte da gente — o que produz os ventos. Só se pode viver perto de outro, e conhecer outra pessoa, sem perigo de ódio, se a gente tem amor.

Any love is already a little bit of health, a rest in the madness.

Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.

Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.

La razón es el perfecto equilibrio de todas las facultades; fuera de ella, todo es insania, insania y nada más que insania.

pero ¿puede entrar en el ánimo del gobierno eliminar la locura? No. ¿Y si el gobierno no la puede eliminar, está al menos apto para discriminarla y reconocerla? Tampoco. Ello es materia de la ciencia. Por lo tanto, en asunto tan melindroso, el gobierno no puede, no debe, no quiere dispensar el concurso de vuestra merced. Lo que le pide es que arbitremos un medio para contentar al pueblo.

Nada tenho que ver com a ciência; mas, se tantos homens em quem supomos juízo são reclusos por dementes, quem nos afirma que o alienado não é o alienista?

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Being crazy isn't enough.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Being in love will leave you half crazy.

It's never any fun being normal, and besides...all the best people are crazy.

You may be right I may be crazy but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.

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