Quotes About Madness

We think that if man gives himself up to an indefinite pursuit of the future he will lose his existence without ever recovering it; he then resembles a madman who runs after his shadow.

I would sometimes tell myself, fearfully but proudly, that I was mad: it's a very short step between utter loneliness and madness.

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them. One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born.

Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

Sister, forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.   ISMENE

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene

forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.

I think you're insane.

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

Now, in this one day, wailing, madness and doom, death, disgrace

O the terror— the suffering, for all the world to see, the worst terror that ever met my eyes. What madness swept over you?

Life without madness is mediocrity.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.

Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.

To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy,And moon-struck madness.