Quotes About Madness

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?

Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as young children are what ultimately give us our life force as adults. Without this first madness, without being able to sustain this emotional lifeline to our childhoods--to our most passionate selves-- our lives can being to feel futile

Following the footnotes of a Lincoln book can drive you towards madness. But it also gives you the chance to spend days trying to determine whether Lincoln might have actually taken a ride on a flying piano, and that's a damned interesting way to spend one's working life.

Across the freeway stands another structure from the other side of the mirror it destroys the logical processes of the mind, a man's thoughts become completely disorganized, madness streaming from every throat frustrated sounds from the bars, metallic sounds from the walls the steel trays, iron beds bolted to the wall, thr smells, the human waste. To determine how men will behave once they enter prison it is of first importance to know that prison.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

I've already informed a number of my men. They're as mad as I am. They're waiting in the terminal. A monkey wrench or a laser torch makes a pretty fair weapon. We can take over by force.

Anjing-anjing ini baik selama bisa diambil manfaatnya, salah-salah dia menggigit dalam keadaan gila.

Eropa gila sama dengan Pribumi gila.

Better be mad with all the world than wise alone. #Fools

Better be mad with all the world than wise alone.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.