Quotes About Madness

Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately.

Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately. Absolutely nuts. She was so mad at Jim O'Casey. She was so mad, she went into the woods and hit a tree hard enough to make her hand bleed. She cried down by the creek until she gagged.

And every day,' he went on, 'we lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance.

His school-fellows thought him quite mad, and tolerated him, and indeed were very kind to him in their barbarous manner.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

À moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies. - Une saison en enfer

I have withered within me all human hope. With every silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy. I have called for executioners; I want to perish chewing on their gun butts. I have called for plagues, to suffocate in sand and blood. Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness.

But today I would suggest you ponder these verses from Ecclesiastes: "And he would have seven flights of madness in his soul, who, having hung his clothes beneath the sun, would groan at the hour of rain

Aucun des sophismes de la folie, - la folie qu'on enferme, - n'a été oublié par moi : je pourrais les redire tous, je tiens le système.

Hace ya miles de años que la pálida Ofelia pasa, fantasma blanco por el gran río negro; más de mil años ya que su suave locura murmura su tonada en el aire nocturno.

It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

La cólera de los idiotas llena el mundo

No, I will drag you to the Thames and throw you in. Let the watermen fish you out. They will if you offer them enough coin." He swallowed. "You are mad enough to do it." "I am. If I discover that you have spoken to her of this matter in any way, I advise you to dress in the suit you most wish to ruin.

People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's only when one realises that great administrators and leaders of men have all been at any rate slightly mad that one has a true understanding of history.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Yaln?z yazarlar? deÄŸil, genellikle bütün sanatç?lar?, ya yar? deli ya da tam deli görmek eÄŸilimi vard?r. Kimi sanatç?lar da yapmac?k yollarla deliliÄŸe özenerek okurlar?n ilgisini t?rnaklarlar.

He grew first to wish to become mad, next to believe that he should become so, and only to be afraid that the expected delirium might not come on soon enough to prevent his appearance for examination before the Lords--a fear, the bare existence of which shows how slight a barrier remained between him and the insanity which he fancied that he longed for.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

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

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.