Quotes About Madness

A great book that claimed that the end of the world, based on a close examination of the Bible, would occur in 1783, had largely retreated into madness, refusing to believe that the present date was any later than 1782, for to do so would be to admit that its contents were wrong and that its existence therefore had no purpose beyond that of a mere curiosity.

We all have our routines," he said softly. "But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

The world is going mad," she said. "The world was always mad. It just wasn't quite this frightening for most of us.

Eventually the Woodsman spoke. 'We all have our routines,' he said softly. 'But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.

Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,And in one word, heroically mad.

Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

'Insanity... I like it."

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth

I am not certain but the partition which separates madness from genius is much thinner than most of us suspect.