Quotes About Madness

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.— Grace Trevelyan

Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds. The storm had been working up not for three days as he supposed, but for six years. It had brewed in the insecurities of being where no eye pierces, his surroundings had thickened it. It had burst and he had not died. The brilliancy of day was around him, he stood upon the mountain range that overshadows youth, he saw.

Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds.

Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt...by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

And much of Madness, and more of Sin,And Horror the soul of the plot.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-- It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

The mad can make their own laws.

In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

Siege This I do, being mad: Gather baubles about me, Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time Death beating the door in. White jade and an orange pitcher, Hindu idol, Chinese god,— Maybe next year, when I'm richer— Carved beads and a lotus pod... And all this time Death beating the door in.

This I do, being mad: Gather baubles about me, Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time Death beating the door in.

Quien no ha tenido como yo el privilegio de pasar buena parte de su vida en un manicomio tal vez ignore esta gran verdad: que todos los allí encerrados perciben claramente la locura de los demás, pero ninguno la propia.

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.