Madness Quotes

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...

It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bel...

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd a...

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according t...

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his wor...

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and ...

«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet date...

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest in...

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...

Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometime...

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible so...

All Mad"'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of yo...

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, p...

He was mad and plenty brave.

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and social...

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seemTo mock me now, all night, all night, andHave I straye...

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean ...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease...

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to c...

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all d...

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule...

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There ...

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets,...

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor sha...

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, stu...

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hi...

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, an...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the...

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas du...

...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and p...

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but...

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. The...

For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T...

Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is...

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

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."On...

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as ...

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What k...

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized...

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling...

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously i...

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feeli...

Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...History is a collection of found objects washed up through ...

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live ...

In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we...

Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i...

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a...

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank ...

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being abl...

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as ...

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"The cat asked, "Where d...

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said,...

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!