Quotes About Madness

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.

Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Belki bir deli tek kiÅŸilik bir az?nl?kt?. Bir zamanlar, dünyan?n güneÅŸ çevresinde döndüÄŸüne inanmak bir delilik belirtisi say?l?yordu, bugün ise geçmiÅŸin deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez olduÄŸuna inanmak...

He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; to-day, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic.

Forse, a ben pensarci, un pazzo non era che una minoranza formata da una sola persona.

La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

And yet I knew with all my heart that Mr. Lincoln was President. We were at war. We were not at war. All was chaos. All was calm. A device had been invented for distant communication. No such device existed. Nor ever could. The notion was mad. And yet I had seen it, had used it; could hear, in my mind, the sound it made as it functioned. It was: telegraph. My God!

To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death—because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.

I began to willfully indulge in dreams that, with the help of a bottle of wine, became completely mad and were close to being loathsome.

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

Well, damn it, I think that prosy fool Bridlington was right for once in his life! You've gone stark, staring mad! Very true! I've known it for this half hour and more.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.