Quotes About Madness

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.

March Madness gave me both a lasting confidence and a lifelong bond with both my teammates and opponents.

This, I realized, was what real depression felt like. What madness felt like.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

All Poets are mad.

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture. All of us have foolish sides, moments in which we lose our heads and think more of our ego or short-term goals. It is human nature. Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others. This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them.

A reasonable man in love may act like a madman, but he should not and cannot act like an idiot.

The Spartan statesman Lycurgus, seven hundred years ago, is said to have observed: When falls on man the anger of the gods, First from his mind they banish understanding. Such was to be the fate of Caesar. I am sure Cicero was correct: he had gone mad. His success had made him vain, and his vanity had devoured his reason.

It seemed to me at the time - and still does now, only even more so - an act of madness for a man to pursue power when he could be sitting in the sunshine and reading a book

I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.

Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

You can't hold a man to blame for what he does when he's crazy, can you?" "You were always crazy," Perrin said, and for a moment he, too, sounded as of old. "No," Nynaeve said. Tears made her eyes bright, but she was smiling. "None of us blames you.

They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...

He would drill holes into the skulls of his living victims, then inject hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains. When these experiments failed to achieve the desired result, Dahmer simply dispatched the unfortunate victim

This longing to commit a madness stays with us throughout our lives. Who has not, when standing with someone by an abyss or high up on a tower, had a sudden impulse to push the other over? And how is it that we hurt those we love although we know that remorse will follow? Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgment on oneself. —Henrik Ibsen