Quotes About Madness

You are out of your freaking skull! Maybe, but is that relevant?

The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will.

Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it.

Pero no padezco de mi locura, disfruto cada minuto de ella.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.

Hij was de heer van Nacht en Ontij. Hij was ook niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoofd. Zoveel was wel duidelijk.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.