Quotes About Madness

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Do you understand? 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.

To rule our country or subjects by force, though we may have the ability, and may correct what is wrong, is yet an ungrateful undertaking; especially as all changes in the state lead to bloodshed, exile, and other evils of discord; while to struggle in ineffectual attempts, and to gain nothing, by wearisome exertions, but public hatred, is the extreme of madness; unless when a base and pernicious spirit, perchance, may prompt a man to sacrifice his honor and liberty to the power of a party.

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

Mi locura es sagrada, no la toquen.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

Soytar? olan ben de?ilim, delili?ini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, ?u akl?n mant???n almayaca?? ölçüde sinsi, bönlü?ünden bile habersiz toplum.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

The madman and the wise man are very similar, the only difference is that the wise man knows that he is crazy.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.