Quotes About Madness

Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?' 'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.' Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?' 'Yes' He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.

Right to business is it, and no time to be friendly?' Crummock stretched his neck to the side, his arms over his head, and lifted one foot and shook it around. 'I came here because I woke in the night, and I walked out into the darkness, and the moon whispered to me. In the forest, d'you see? In the trees, and in the voices of the owls in the trees, and d'you know what the moon said?' 'That you're mad as fuck?' growled Dow.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

The cicadas buzzed in Bing's head, like madness.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads, to let the demons out, to relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.

Two young people—one mad and one sexually insatiable—both naked—are roaming this house. At all costs we must prevent a collision.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

It was as if the door to an asylum had been flung open inside his skull, allowing a wave of incoherent screams, individual cries, and desperate fragmented phrases into his mind.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Can you imagine founding a cuisine on blueberries? Everyone would be so sick of them within a week, they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with a cuisine based on the blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering sameness of their daily meals.

Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.

I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.