Quotes About Madness

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

Who loves, raves.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo kind of fussy - fussy and proper - then gradually dropped the fussiness and properness as the madness of battle really affects him.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

THE ONLY MADNESS GREATER THAN CHALLENGING FATE IS ACCEPTING IT.

There have been many times when I have felt I have gone mad, for I have had many great adventures, and the greatest adventures are those that act most strongly upon our minds.

I had been crazy since I was born, and now I was sane and it felt wonderful. The wind and the waves were sitting in that cave with me twisting thread, and nature was not something outside anymore.

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.

Madness, by the life of the Prophet! Audran felt as if he were peering through a narrow tunnel, seeing the world with Abu Adil's mean, self-centered outlook. Things were only good for Abu Adil, or bad for Abu Adil; if they were neither, they did not exist.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their self-satisfaction—as it were a hidden seed of madness, a confidence that they can move the world without precise notion of standing-place or lever.

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men.

I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape from pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favorite of Heaven because I am not a favorite with men.

Un'intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po' spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.

For that fine madness still he did maintain,   Which always should possess the poet's brain.