Quotes About Madness

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

Cuidado, creo que se me está empezando a aflojar algún tornillo. Eso es lo malo que tiene la soledad, que ves el mundo al revés y acabas perdiendo tornillos y volviéndote loco.

Y si hubiésemos llegado a unos tiempos de locura en los que los hombres tampoco pudiésemos elegir nuestros puntos cardinales?

There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell. But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun, which will melt the wax of the mind, and the fall will be terrible.

If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

What would it have mattered? What does any of it matter? You don't have to look at me like that! I'm not mad! I know what's going on . . . we'd all of us be better dead!' There was a long silence; then Shahid, grimly, said: 'I expect, very soon, we all shall be.

It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self—hate to self—trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.

Sartre, je le jugeai plus tard sinon tout à fait gagné par la folie des mots, du moins, dans la lutte exténuante qu'il a toujours menée contre elle, enclin, corydrane aidant, à y céder.

Souvenons-nous de ce temps, pas révolu, où toute explosion de violence était considérée comme une contre-violence, une réponse à la violence exercée plus ou moins ouvertement par l'État, par la société, les institutions, l'ordre établi. La folie des soeurs Papin, toute folie peut-être, serait-elle la forme extrême et désespérée de la révolte?

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Let them laugh and point. You are a yogi of traffic jams and discarded apple cores, aloneness and impossibly blue winter skies, a yogi of broken dreams, mad with truth and devotion and inexplicable joy, and you cannot be saved now.

Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.

I'm doing this because I'm insane. Doesn't my mad cackle make me sound insane?

In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate.

There was a gleam in her eye now that I did not like, that promised damage. "I want you to think about something. You might be immune to hypnosis- you might- but what about the veil already in place? What if I removed that veil so you could access your own memories of crossing the border?" the psychologist asked. "Would you like that, Little Flame? Would you like it or would you go mad?

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. *

I think this is an asylum. But so is the rest of the world.