Quotes About Madness

Los sueños y la locura eran las dos caras de la misma moneda.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

In the culture of madness 'reality' and 'representations' endlessly played off each other. What a crazy world in which the poor had to pretend to be mad in order to get a crust!

Everyone says she's mad.' 'How do they know?' I asked. 'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.' 'Is that being mad?' 'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

him, but of course they wouldn't allow that. She became very melancholic, and started living all by herself in the old palace. They give her everything she needs, but she doesn't go out or have visitors. Everyone says she's mad.' 'How do they know?' I asked. 'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.' 'Is that being mad?

All my days I have done evil. Knowing godhood thrice, no man can endure wholly sane. At one period of my existence I was Dionysius; at another, Dis; at a third, Ares.

The madman is a dreamer awake

and he kills without fear, or anger, or hate, with regret even, simply because its necessary. That's rare, and it's rare still among the really first-rate. God help the enemy that finally frightens him or makes him mad.

Deli olaca??m, yahut ölece?im dersem yalan söylemi? olurum. ?nsan tahammül edemeyece?ini zannetti?i ?eylere pek çabuk al???yor ve katlan?yor.

Nació con el don de la risa y con la sensación de que el mundo estaba loco. Y ese era todo su patrimonio.

Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.

Most people cannot handle freedom. They are always trying to bind themselves, but only talking , mouthing freedom all the time because freedom needs courage , freedom needs a certain madness

La locura humana radica en tratar de alcanzar la felicidad a través de las situaciones externas

People do not know how to handle the bonus energy generated at that time and hence treat it as a curse, and even a kind of madness. (The word "lunatic" is derived, as we know, from "lunar.") The physical body is a fantastic stepping-stone for higher possibilities, but for most people it functions as a roadblock.

That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.

Vielleicht ist meine Kunst die Kunst eines Wahnsinnigen, ein funkelndes Quecksilber, eine blaue Seele, die über meine Bilder hereinbricht.

that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness

To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort.

17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.

Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad , as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

They wouldn't know mad when they saw it in any case, because a good portion of the women in the Asylum were no madder than the Queen of England. Many were sane enough when sober, as their madness came out of a bottle, which is a kind I knew very well. One of them was in there to get away from her husband, who beat her black and blue, he was the mad one but nobody would lock him up;

Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?