Quotes About Madness

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. It is a return to the Ice Age— no warmth, no life, no movement. Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether, and it has driven some men mad.

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

The still-alives. They were all crazy.

But now it was as if such simplicity had, without him even noticing it happening, grown very small and far away and him on the deck of an old ocean liner heading towards rough sea and waving like a madman back at a shore which, like a time when there'd been a steady kind of joy in something like the simplicity of a lemon, had disappeared, vanished completely, was no longer visible to the eye. Is no longer. Loser.

The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.

I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind. I confess that I've forgotten what for.

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

Ilm Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ishq Hai Diwana-Pan Ishq Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ilm Hai Takhmeen-o-Zan Knowledge said to me, Love is madness; Love said to me, Knowledge is calculation Band-e-Takhmeen-o-Zan! Kirm-e-Kitabi Na Ban Ishq Sarapa Huzoor, Ilm Sarapa Hijab O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm! Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil.

It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself.

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fixangelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Crazy. I went crazy.

Prince Kanta was crazy!

Japón es un país que sabe lo que significa volverse loco

Para mí, un loco es un ser cuyo comportamiento resulta inexplicable. El mío, en cambio, puedo explicarlo

Y cuando una niña es guapa, y cuando una niña es hermosa, el mayor poeta de Italia le dedica toda su obra, un inmenso lógico inglés pierde la razón por ella, un escritor ruso huye de su país para bautizar con su nombre una novela peligrosa, etc. Porque las niñas pueden llevar a la locura.

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

Si no recuerdas la más ligera locura en que el amor te hizo caer, no has amado. –William Shakespeare