Quotes About Madness

At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ...

I'll walk off the rest of my mad.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

You humans are crazy.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.

Faith is like a mental illness," Richard Dawkins has said, "a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."2 Sam Harris agrees, saying, "We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common, we call them religious. Otherwise, they are likely to be called mad, delusional, or psychotic."3

The misconception that bothers me the most is the notion of madness," Pettit said. "It devalues him as a great artist. He was so hard working, so dedicated, so exacting, but some rather believe he had to be insane to write about insane characters. It's the opposite. You have to be in complete command of your art to depict that so effectively.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #7: SOMETIMES, IN ORDER TO GET COMPLETELY SANE, YOU HAVE TO GO A LITTLE CRAZY.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —ARISTOTLE

that was when life made sense. Now there's nothing but madness.

I am going to meet a beautiful girl today," Pino said, wagging his finger at the scarlet, threatening sky. "And we are going to fall in mad, tragic love and go on grand adventures with music and food and wine and intrigue every day, all day long.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?""Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Reason is for rich people. We have madness.