Quotes About Madness

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Insanity is the base for Creativity.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.