Quotes About Madness

It made me dizzy to realise that this was but a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad?

Las voces de los muertos tienen el poder de enloquecer a los vivos.

I would know it even in madness.

How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad

But why did the madness come?" "The gods wished to punish him," Chiron answered.

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark, or disguise. I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

C'est la folie humaine que je trouve amusante.

I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in darkness or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Pourtant, certains disent que les amoureux sont fous.

Like a good many men, artists or not, Stone liked to go out with ravishing women who were some kind of crazy, but preferred to go home to somebody sane. With the possible exception of Pablo Picasso, this pattern of behavior is not sustainable for anyone in the long term.

Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?

a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

130. We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.

I have long known about madmen and kings; I have long known about feeling real. I have long been lucky enough to feel real, no matter what diminishments or depressions have come my way. And I have long known that the moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back? 37. Are you sure -- one would like to ask -- that it cannot love you back?

Goethe describes blue as lively color, but one devoid of gladness. "It may be said to disturb rather than enliven.". Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionallu incapable of loving you back?

We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.

To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

I may be crazy , but that doesn't mean I'm wrong . I'm mad but not ill .

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of doctors, even when we call in the best of them the chances are that we may be staking our hopes on some medical theory that will be proved false in a few years. So that to believe in medicine would be utter madness, were it not still a greater madness not to believe in it, for from this accumulation of errors a few valid theories have emerged in the long run.

Madness is a distrust of reason.