Quotes About Madness

As soon as his soft voice began to flow the night would become less empty. He built a bridge of cobwebs between us, a bridge of words. They fluttered above us in an arch; they rose and dropped, like the waters of the river. He was the source; I was the mouth. A secret was woven between us, and the beautiful madness called conversation worked a miracle: two dead logs that lay side by side suddenly revided, and were not completely separated.

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd be dead without you. And you're so good to me. And you love me too. How lucky is that? Amazing! Amazingly lucky. I can't live without you. You're my lucky charm." She felt a sudden desire to kill Justin's well-meaning friend.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

I understand there's a history of madness in your family.

It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

I would rather have you haunt me, driving me mad, than have you leave me.

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Forse la pazzia non è l'ebetudine, non è il monologare franto e farneticante dei disperati che si aggirano sui marciapiedi delle stazioni, è la diversità che separa dagli altri, dalle altre, è la speranza, il sogno, quasi la pretesa di avere un destino. Di non essere un ombra senza storia, un fantasma che scivola sul mondo senza lasciare un impronta, e di voler fare qualcosa di importante nella vita.

I love it when you're demented like this.

He was impressed and surprised and, more than anything, he was intrigued. He was growing to enjoy the way her eyes squinted and her mouth twisted as she concentrated hard. Sometimes he heard her murmur, "Hmm, yes, I know," and he wanted to creep inside her head and join in her madness.

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

She was his only anchor in a sea of madness.

Borderline personality disorder is a form of madness made of mood disorders and neurological malfunctions. People with borderline personality heat up fast and have trouble cooling back down. Emotions run high. Impulse and inhibition run together like hot and cold water from a tap. Once the borderline body reaches this place of hypervigilance and despair, every day presents new evidence of apocalypse and new opportunities for hysteria and resignation.

a velhice não nos dá nenhuma sabedoria, simplesmente autoriza outras loucuras.

Havia duas maneiras de partir: uma era ir embora, outra era enlouquecer.

Ahora puedo decírtelo. No es la muerte la que concede ausencia. El muerto aún está presente: todo el pasado le pertenece. La única manera de dejar de existir es la locura. Solo un loco está ausente.

Unos dicen que el peso la ha vuelto loca. Yo tengo fe en su demencia. Solo las pequeñas locuras pueden salvarnos de la gran locura.

You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know

There is beauty in the world. There is no reason for it to be here. If it's all biology, all eating and getting eaten and the strongest devouring the weakest, then it's madness. Nothing more than madness. It's dying and drowning, and all love is illusion. But there is love, you see. Poor, weak, and broken love—a sign of something from a distant land.

Ah yes, but unity can be authentic only if it is founded upon truth. We cannot pretend that there are two conflicting truths, both of which are right. This is madness. It destroys the interior unity of the human person and the meaning of personhood.