Quotes About Madness

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. —

I'm insane, not forgetful.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants, Eve said. Define crazy.

Porque eso era, de hecho, mi secreto. En un mundo demente, la cordura tiene muy poco sentido.

I'm mad at global warming for all the obvious reasons, but mostly I'm mad at it for ruining Christmas. This time of year is supposed to be about teeth-chattering, cold weather that necessitates coats, scarves, and mittens. Outside there should be see-your-breath air that offers the promise of sidewalks covered in snow, while inside, families drink hot chocolate by a roaring fire, huddled close together with their pets to keep warm.

My love, she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, now we shall belong to each other in a strange country that you do not know. It is the country of madmen but not the country of brutes. I am taking away your vulgar senses and giving you others more refined.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated. No one seemed to remember the lessons of history—or cared to learn them.

The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning — that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would.

When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.

consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

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

En el punto donde esperanza y razón se separan reside el lugar en que la locura se dispara.

The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one bleak and grotesque place after another, for you can imagine yourself into all kinds of paranoid delusions and even into madness.

Haven't you noticed, insanity is the new normal?

The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That , not madness, was his curse.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

He supposed he had gone somewhat mad, but a little madness was preferable to unending despair.