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Quotes About Madness

Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Así es como se escribe la historia.
~ Eoin Colfer
Si je gagne, je suis un génie, si je perd, je suis fou.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.
~ Eoin Colfer
But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.
~ Eoin Colfer
What? Now?' 'Yes. Now.' Kamar paced the tiny living room. 'That is crazy. Completely insane. Fowl cannot be here for a couple of days at the earliest. There's no need for us to spend two days breathing in that poison. What is the reasoning?' Mikhael extended the phone. 'You tell him. I'm sure the Menidzher will appreciate being told he is a madman.' Kamar
~ Eoin Colfer
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
~ Epictetus
Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren't they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?
~ Epictetus
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.
~ Eric Alterman
Bilge, içindeki kusurlar?n nedenini ortaya ç?kar?r; ç?lg?n, bundan diÄŸerlerini suçlar.
~ Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.
~ Erica Jong
The anxiety engendered by confronting the abyss of nothingness [of the loss of self] is more terrifying than the tortures of hell. In the vision of hell, I am punished and tortured—In the vision of nothingness I am driven to the border of madness—because I cannot say 'I' any more.
~ Erich Fromm
I've often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Amanda Stevens
Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
~ Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Insanity makes the rivers flow.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It is madness to think that knowing a language and reading a few books can create allegiances between people. Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.
~ Amitav Ghosh
It's true we're all a little insane
~ Amy Lee
Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.
~ Amy Witting
Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.
~ Ana Menéndez
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~ Anacharsis
I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.
~ Anacreon