Quotes About Madness

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Los hombres eran locos. Sufrían cuando eran felices por miedo a perder la felicidad.

Entonces repetí palabras que antes habían tenido un sentido pálido en mi experiencia. "Sufrirás", me decía, "sufrirás... sufrirás...sufrirás..." "Sufrirás... sufrirás..." "Sufrirás...", y la palabra se me caía de los labios. Así maduré todo el invierno infernal.

enferma, y entonces, asqueado de sí mismo, saltaba del lecho, le entregaba el dinero a la prostituta, y sin haberla usado, huía hacia otro infierno a gastar el dinero que no le pertenecía, a hundirse más en su locura que aullaba a todas horas.

Lo que llamamos locura es la descostumbre del pensamiento de los otros.

The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.

En aquel tiempo yo tenía veinte años y estaba loco. Había perdido un país pero había ganado un sueño. Y si tenía ese sueño lo demás no importaba.

He didn't like the earth, much less forests. He didn't like the sea either, or what ordinary mortals call the sea, which is really only the surface of the sea, waves kicked up by the wind that have gradually become the metaphor for defeat and madness.

He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.

Y después nos pusimos a hablar de política, que era un tema que a Cesárea le gustaba, aunque cada vez menos. Cómo si la política y ella hubieran enloquecido juntas.

Soñé que traducía al Marqués de Sade a golpes de hacha. Me había vuelto loco y vivía en un bosque.

Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.

Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.

Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad." "Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

Die in your dreams, wake up insane.

Only a crazy man could have made any sense of the events. I did not want to be crazy, and so I could not think seriously about these things or permit them to have meaning in my life.

Madness made him such a congenial fellow.

Some friendships go deeper than madness or common sense

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

We're all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it wore than others.

We're all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.

But weirdness is relative in the territory occupied by the mentally deranged.