Quotes About Madness

I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.

You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.

Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.

Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. "If you cut open the head [of a mentally ill individual]," Hippocrates wrote, "you will find the brain humid, full of sweat and smelling badly." For Hippocrates, "body juices" were the cause of madness; a sudden flood of bile to the brain would produce anxiety.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

SATAN'S LETTER This is a strange place, and extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane.

Cuando recordamos que todos somos locos, la vida queda explicada

There was a secret somewhere, but madness was not the key to it.

Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven.

Love is madness if thwarted it develops fast

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

What an ass you are! he said. Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane.