Quotes About Madness

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I am crazy, I know, Thérèse. But who is not?

Je dis la folie, et non point la démence. La démence est la perte des facultés intellectuelles. La folie n'est qu'un usage bizarre et singulier de ces facultés.

I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone.

The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.

On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps. I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain.

There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

People are getting permanent tattoos of my name. It's madness. People come and touch my feet. Initially it was really weird, but now I think people see me as an inspiration. So I need to set the right example.

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

I last played in Dubai in the summer of 2009 and it was still over 40 degrees in the evening. It was extremely exhausting and absolute madness.