Quotes About Madness

Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!

Who is Fox?, I asked. Policeman Fox is the third of us, said the Sergeant, but we never see him or hear tell of him at because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs the book in the middle of the night when even a badger is asleep. He is as mad as a hare, he never interrogates the public and he is always taking notes.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

Habría sido una buena mujer -dijo el Desequilibrado- si hubiese tenío a alguien cerca que le disparara cada minuto de su vida.

If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.

I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during its descent into madness. I find it a comfort that Obama-as-dad presided over a family that leaves the White House healthy and happy.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

The forests were foris, 'outside.' In them lived the outcasts, the mad, the lovers, brigands, hermits, saints, lepers, the paquis, fugitives, misfits, the persecuted, wild men. Where else could they go? Outside of the law and human society one was in the forest. But the forest's asylum was unspeakable. One could not remain human in the forest; one could only rise above or sink below the human level.

So they locked me up," Danskin said. "I feigned madness. I babbled, I recited Heine. Nine years. Here I am." They rode in silence for a while. "But you're still pissed off." "Now more than ever.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.