Quotes About Madness

I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry.

Religion and art are both forms of madness, and madness is the realm of psychiatry.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Blake, the English painter, poet and printmaker, was clearly a man stuck in the P section of potential careers. Now he is considered a great artist, but in his lifetime he was largely ignored or thought to be mad. I suspect it was because he was a gloriously original thinker, and no one ever really likes that.

The dice of love are shouting and madness.

You're like a madness inside me, a fever I can't cure.

I wasn't possessed—I was insane!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

Follow me," Myrnin said. "And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

Pouvoir, au milieu de la folie, redevenir humaine

Oh, one is not always alone you know. I mean so alone that one might go mad. No, there are boats and trains full of people to watch and observe and then, if one ever feels one is really going mad, there is always something to be done about it.

Some birds are shrieking at the tops of their voices, crazy birds.

Je suis devenue folle en pleine raison.