Quotes About Madness

You are immersed in an abundance of endless emptiness, where you become more and more confused and this leads you to madness.

The new teaching of each of you is God philosophy is truly insane in itself. Madness of this generation, even the devil can create fake things.

To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.

We keep our eyes out of the sun, not because we are weak; but because we want to apply reason over madness.

While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.

Insanity, blood-soaked death, murderous aggression, this is who the Psy were before Silence. No other race, it is said, bred more vicious, more intelligent, or more sadistic serial killers. But worse was the clawing madness that destroyed so many of them, saints and sinners alike, until it became known as the flip side to their incredible psychic gifts.

In evading his question, she'd given him his answer. His father had heard voices in his madness and now Raphael heard them, too.

The Cascade, according to everything they'd been able to discover, was a confluence of time and certain critical events that led to a surge of power in the Cadre. All of the archangels would grow in strength, some might be touched with madness, but none would remain the same. Neither would the world, for the archangels were part of its very fabric.

Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.

Caligula's madness has encircled him so that although he rules an empire as wide as any ever known, he is entrapped within the labyrinth of his own mind. He cannot see beyond the horizons of his own loves and hatreds, his own family,

There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.

You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

El amor enloqueció a Norrie. Espero que nunca me pase a mí.

The store owner had settled himself behind the counter again and was reaching for his book. "The journey will test your sanity." He spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, as though there were nothing extraordinary about his words. "And once you start walking down that road, there is no turning back. You will start craving the rush. One can become addicted to madness, you know. Develop a taste for it." He looked down at the book in his hands, frowned and turned a page.

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

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness…

Honestly, Jonathan, I begin to think you are suffering from some terrible form of insanity the idée fixe. People may drown in your ornamental waters or perish in your snow-drifts, and all you can think of is your hell-inspired party.

the overwhelming sheer aloneness that hangs in the air in rural Ireland is a potent force. It is at once the greatest positive and negative thing about the countryside. For with it comes not only the peacefulness of life here, the undeniable sense of the spiritual, but also the consequent darker aspects of hopelessness and madness.

Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.