Quotes About Madness

En Vauville, el recuerdo del canto de la mendiga vuelve a mí. Ese canto tan simple. El de los locos, de todos los locos, por todas partes, los de la indiferencia. El de la muerte fácil. Los de la muerte por obra del hambre, la de los muertos de los caminos, de las fosas, medio devorados por los perros, los tigres, las aves de presa, las ratas gigantes de los pantanos.

Que je n'avais jamais vu ma mère dans le cas d'être folle. Elle l'était. De naissance. De sang. Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.

Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.

Se dice: loco de alegría. También podría decirse: cuerdo de dolor.

H]umilié par la vie, qui l'un après l'autre avait soufflé ses rêves, [Don Ruggero] mettait la démence entre sa défaite et lui.

El amor y la locura son los motores que hacen andar la vida.

In a world gone mad, we can choose to be sane. In order to move ourselves, and our civilization, into the next phase of our evolutionary journey, it's time for all of us to awaken.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

September 1, 1964: I am going mad with love, mad. He was here, here next to me. Thousands of uncovered things stand before me Before Predrag [her first boyfriend] and me. Uncovering them, finding that sound, that forgotten ring, that drop of hope before the first light~ without an agreement, without any agreement, still untouched, touched by nothing In peace, In self.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

ninguna locura, no se disforzaba. Se tomaba sus copas y nada más.

It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

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

The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid.

It'll be your own torture, he said, serious. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

Yes; — if there were children. And it will come back to her if he dies first. But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever. It'll all go to some cousin of his that nobody ever saw

Genealogy was her favorite insanity.

A world ruled by a handful of madmen who weren't even that bright. How had it come to this?

defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

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It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

The theatre will never find itself again except by furnishing the spectator with the truthful precipitates of dreams, in which his taste for crime, his erotic obsessions, his savagery, his chimeras, his utopian sense of life and matter, even his cannibalism, pour out on a level not counterfeit and illusory, but interior. […] If theatre wants to find itself needed once more, it must present everything in love, crime, war and madness.