Quotes About Madness

Porphyria's lover was mad, of course, but what lover is completely sane?

For that fine madness still he did retainWhich rightly should possess a poet's brain.

Bellatrix Lestrange

Barnabas the Barmy

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

Gentlemen,' the professor said gravely. 'You must stop this madman. If you do not, you are looking at a doomsday scenario of apocalyptic proportions.

A single, random, foolish event can often change a life—a chance meeting, or an accident or a moment of madness. But more often it happens by increments like a creeping tide, so slowly that we barely notice. My life was altered by a diagnosis. It was never going to be a death sentence, but it has robbed me by degrees.

The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself. "The second sign of madness," I explain. "What's the first one?" "Killing lots of people and eating their genitals." He laughs and sneaks another look at me.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to his madness.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

Life is all about unfolding of the genes, spilling off of the beans, mistakes of the teens, madness for the leans v/s goodness of the greens, living within and beyond means . Through all this chaos if you remain alert, aware, the master from inside will arise and you shall MickeyMize.

In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

He is as mad as a March hare.