Quotes About Madness

In their humility, they can't easily see themselves as the spine and heart of the world, but if they don't eventually understand their value, the necessity of their resistance, the future will be an ugly realm of madness, oppression, and endless violence.

He was mad with hope. In reasonable measure, hope sustains us. In great excess, it distorts perceptions, dulls the mind, corrupts the heart to no less an extent than does heroin.

THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion.

not the perpetrators claimed a just and noble cause. 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.

She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

Without a window between me and this absolute-black sky, the effect of such undetailed heavens was profound, frightening not just because of the uncanny darkness but also for a reason that eluded me. Or perhaps the reason was not elusive. Maybe I dreaded acknowledging and considering it, for fear that contemplation would soon sweep me out of the main currents of sanity, into a tributary of madness.

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

What he has seen is a nation gone insane. History attests that whole societies can turn away from truth and descend into a madness of lies in as little as a year. That was all it took in Germany in the late 1930s.

until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad.

Il y a de la folie à courir le hasard de devenir fou par vanité.

To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.

My uncle's death confirmed a suspicion of mine that madness and religion were a hair's breadth away.

Hier gibt's keine Typen mit Schlafstörungen oder welche, die Angst vor Löchern im Bürgersteig haben. Soweit ich das aus den Akten ersehen konnte, sind die Leute hier, nun ja, richtig plemplem.

Non sono pazza. Non lo sono. Certo, cos'altro direbbe una pazza? E' questo l'aspetto geniale della situazione. L'aspetto kafkiano. Se non sei pazza ma la gente ha detto a tutti che lo sei, allora qualsiasi affermazione contraria da parte tua non farà che rafforzare quella tesi. Capisce cosa intendo?

When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little, and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. When have I ever not loved the pain of love? But this has moved past love to mania. This has the strong clench of the madman, this is gripping the ledge of unreason, before plunging howling into the abyss. Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.

But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

I now and then wished I could go mad"—he said thoughtfully "—it seemed a great deal easier than having always to think what to do next—but it doesna seem to come natural to me.

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever I say is a kind of petition, and the darkest days must I praise.

Ausdruck ist Wahn

they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst