Madness Quotes

That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times ...

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometim...

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental h...

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hai...

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece o...

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t li...

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms the...

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the pe...

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder...

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ...

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable wa...

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable wa...

I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and t...

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad...

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certai...

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our ...

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis o...

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's t...

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your...

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a c...

We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any ...

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears...

Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he ...

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth f...

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

I walked into my own book, seeking peace.It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dre...

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I bel...

June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, wh...

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your...

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the fe...

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood...

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Ess...

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any mo...

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more ser...

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so dea...

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany...

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the intern...

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having...

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him a...

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I ...

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedie...

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they on...

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their p...

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing mor...

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Madness breeds madness.

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From...

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “Ther...

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets...

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably so...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless...