Quotes About Madness

It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad...

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Ah, give me madness, you heavenly powers! Madness, that I may at last believe in myself!

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed

Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness.

Ng??i ta sát h?i không ph?i b?ng cÆ¡n ph?n ná»™ Ä'iên cu?ng, mà chính b?ng ti?ng c??i

Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness—as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne—and often the throne also sits on mud.

Siempre hay algo de locura en el amor; pero también siempre hay algo de razón en la locura.

I fear that the animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Hay quien no encuentra su corazón hasta que no pierde la cabeza.

Everyone wants the same; everyone is the same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

The greatest danger that always hovered over humanity, and still hovers over it, is the eruption of madness— which means the eruption of arbitrariness in feeling, seeing, and hearing, the enjoyment of the mind's lack of discipline, the joy in human unreason.

It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is always also some reason in madness.

Todos querem o mesmo, todos são iguais: o que pensa de outro modo tende a ir para o manicómio.

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

Nature works by subtle, secret means—man's invisible seed, spider bite, the viewless spores of madness and of death, rocks that are born in earth's unknown bowels, the silent stars a-creep across the sky—and we thieves copy her.

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hyserical laughter...the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever. A Bit of the Dark World