Quotes About Madness

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.

My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

I am not a country girl at all. I tried the whole country dream and it didn't work for me. I need the madness and pandemonium of a city around me.

I play a simple, fun-loving girl who adds madness to 'Mubarakan.'

Getting mad only leads to madness.

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

Goats, said Maxwell Hyde, are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

It just lies behind the slightly more normal things I do do. This sense that most people are crazy, if you look deep enough. Adults particularly, and children have to deal with them.

There was no rational explanation for what she had seen. It was unscientific. And Hester knew the world was totally and profoundly scientific. There could be only one explanation. "I must be mad," she whispered. Her pupils dilated and her nostrils quivered. "I have seen a ghost!