Quotes About Madness

Entonces la loca de la casa, harta de tus desprecios de viejo bobo, se marcha con el tío Celerino a buscar cerebros más elásticos.

Sentirte loco es sentir que de algún modo ya no perteneces a la especie humana.

madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Leave him alone, he's as mad as a hatter!

Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness—and run. Enter

I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.

for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Tabaqui, more than any one else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of any one, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.

Things are needy. They take up space. They want attention, and they will drive you mad if you let them.

you're like the leader of a big brass band made up of all the jazzy stuff of the planet, and you're floating out there in space, standing on this great garbage heap of a world, with your hair slicked back and your natty suit and your stick up in the air, surrounded by all the eager things, and for one quick, beautiful moment, all their voices go silent, waiting till you bring your baton down. Music or madness. It's totally up to you.

Music or madness. It's totally up to you.

Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder.

La storia è spesso frutto di una leggerezza. Il frutto bastardo della stupidità umana, un parto dell'obnubilazione, dell'idiozia e della pazzia. In questi casi la storia è opera di gente che non sa quello che fa, anzi che neanche lo vuole sapere, che respinge quest'eventualità con rabbia e disgusto. La vediamo precipitarsi verso la propria rovina, irretirsi da sola, annodarsi il cappio, verificare con cura che reti e cappi siano solidi, resistenti, efficaci.

There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

It doesn't appeal to experience, which of all laughable things is perhaps the most laughable and, far from making a man wise, if he knows nothing higher it will soon make him mad.

Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

He didn't know who she was, but she was too crazy to be holding anything in a test tube.

being crazy is a job qualification.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.