Quotes About Madness

That is why I write. I am just for ever running from madness.

When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different. Or daring to be the you that exists beyond all the physical clutter and mind debris of modern existence.

the whole planet is having a kind of collective breakdown, then unhealthy behaviour fits right in. When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different. Or daring to be the you that exists beyond all the physical clutter and mind debris of modern existence.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different.

Quando a loucura se converte em normalidade, a única forma de encontrarmos a sanidade passa pela audácia de sermos diferentes. Ou pela audácia de sermos o eu que existe à margem de todo o entulho com que a vida moderna entope corpo e mente.

Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

Basically it says that the world is what we recognize in our own will. Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation. Because those same cravings shape what we see. We end up feeding from ourselves, until we go mad. And end up in here.

So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad? News from a nervous planet As I began researching I quickly found some attention

Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

All at once I felt myself haunted by a terrible vision, of a world without guidance: a land of emptiness, where all was ruled by the madness of chance. How could one endure such a place, where all significance was lost? I myself would mean nothing, but would merely be a kind of self-invention: a speck upon the wind, calling itself Wilson. I felt my spirit waver, as if it were toppling into the abyss before me.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

I tried to lift myself above the fray; but, the higher I rose, the more I saw of the madness and the horror of it, of the justice of one cause and the infamy of the other. It is possible that one day, when time has wearied remembrance and restored the ruins, wise men will tell us that we were mistaken and that our standpoint was not lofty enough; but they will say it because they will no longer know what we know, nor will they have seen what we have seen. Maurice Maeterlinck. Nice , 1916.

Ich muß gestehen, daß ich zuerst den Eindruck hatte, unter Verrückte gefallen zu sein.

For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

Najve?a mudrost u životu je da ?ovjek prona?e pravu ludost.