Quotes About Madness

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there will be no wilderness." He sipped at his bourbon and ice. "Soon there will be no place to go. Then the madness becomes universal." Another thought. "And the universe goes mad.

The sensation of freedom was exhilarating, though tinged with a shade of loneliness, a touch of sorrow. The old dream of total independence, beholden to no man and no woman, floated above his days like smoke from a pipe dream, like a silver cloud with a dark lining. For even Hayduke sensed, when he faced the thing directly, that the total loner would go insane. Was insane. Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wildness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

we see that it's only the old numbers game again, the monomania of small and very simple minds in the grip of an obsession. They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad].

One flew east, one flew west,One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Aloysius, you mad or sane today?

God went mad out of love for us. Then we must be very lovely. What we have stressed in the past is how lovely God must be that he can love us like this. But nobody has yet said how lovely we must be, that God could fall for us like this. Both are true.

When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.

Maybe in the old days men did walk the earth as beasts, and a city of birds floated in the heavens between the realms of men and gods. Or maybe, like all lunatics, the shepherd made his own truth, and so for him, true it was.

It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.

It was strange how very bad men felt a need to live somewhere not just spectacular but slightly insane.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness,' says Antonio in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it's accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Sheep are just psychotic.

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.