Quotes About Madness

Maybe this is the beginning of madness . . . Forgive me for what I am saying. Read it . . . quietly, quietly. —OSIP MANDELSTAM

The three criteria of reptilian functioning that leaders of any family or institution can always rely on to judge madness (of others or their own) are ??interfering in the relationships of others; ??unceasingly trying to convert others to their own point of view; and ??being unable to relate to people who do not agree with them.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God (Vox Populi, Vox Dei), since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. -- Letter to Charlemagne, 800 AD.

Eu quisera concluir que as mais belas página de Jung, ou também as páginas mais belas de cada pessoa que consegue exprimir a própria criatividade, decorrem sempre de uma experiência de sedução, que coincida com a tomada de consciência do próprio mundo interior. Um doloroso caminho que nos impele à loucura, mas ninguém teria dúvida em escolher, entre a inocência e a possibilidade de ser encantado por outro.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

no te da miedo la locura? —¡Por favor! Es lo único maravilloso en esta sucia vida de mierda.

miras como yo: con los ojos y con las manos y con el sexo y con el alma mientras la memoria hecha de piel de tambor bate ritmos cada vez más urgentes, que en verdad son llamadas, que en verdad son plegarias tácitas hechas de un silencio alborotado en donde las cosas corren y mi amor corre y todo en mí es un agua precipitada, absolutamente loca y ardiente.

Quien no vive trágicamente se vuelve idiota. Vivir trágicamente es tomar el camino de la locura y del suicidio a corto plazo. Esto que digo implica tanto idiotez cuanto locura. No

Behold space trembling like a great madman.

Because madness is a lie too. Like night. Like death.

En un muro blanco dibujas las alegorías del reposo, y es siempre una reina loca que yace bajo la luna sobre la triste hierba del viejo jardín.

El misterio es éste: ¿por qué yo quedé mutilada y ella no? Me siento recién salida de una catástrofe. ¿Por qué no olvido? No sé por dónde empezar a olvidar. Aun estoy asombrada de no estar loca. Pero ¿se puede vivir siempre así, asombrada, enloqueciendo de asombro?

Dígalo, dígalo sin miedo; tal como va el mundo todos los que no somos imbéciles necesitamos estar un poco locos.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

Vamos en una cárcel racional que navega dentro de un loco.

Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?

I don't really watch my own old films, unlike Ronald Reagan, who sat in the White House and reran Knute Rockne — All American [1940] again and again. That way madness lies — though I must say, of my own films ...

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

You always look for logic even within the madness?" He could feel her eyes on him now, studying him to see if he was serious. He kept his eyes on the road ahead. "It'd be convenient to believe people who commit these types of crimes are simply mad. That there's a neuron or two misfiring inside their brains." "If they're not mad, not crazy, what then?" She hesitated but only briefly before she calmly and quietly said, "They're evil.