Quotes About Madness

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

He's lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Not to be mad is another form of madness