Madness Quotes

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

~ M.d. Elster

Have I... I venture, terrified of the potential answer. Have I gone mad? No, no, no. She says. Okay, oui, peut-être, that depends. Maybe you have gone a little mad, and only for a little spell.

~ M.d. Elster

Life without madness is mediocrity.

~ Nelou Keramati

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

~ J. Leigh Bralick

Madness exist in the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is madness in the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It’s what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you’ve lost the plot. Or just lost it.

~ Amanda Craig

When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

~ Thomas Bernhard

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Madness is witlessness’s.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more strangely, and so far I’d had no conversations with invisible buddies that I was aware of. Except in my sleep, of course-and did that really count? Weren’t we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor’s children?

~ Jeff Lindsay

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

~ Alain De Botton

No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to crySo my verse hasthis almost imperceptible thrillLife is sad, the world is crazy!Not worth killing yourself for itNot for anyoneFor no loveLife goes on, indifferently!

~ Mario Quintana

They say that it's a crazy world out there. I don't mind contributing by a bit of madness myself.

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

~ Cassandra Clare

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.

~ Danny Strong

Inside everyone is a their own madness, a madness only courage can stand to, but even courage is never alone. He has Love, Hatred, Sadness, Confusion, Bravery, and in some special cases Intelligence.

~ Tyler L. H.

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

~ Drew Hayes

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the as

~ Kate Summerscale

More I tried hating him,more I thought about him and I lived with it everyday and I lived with him everyday.

~ Pushpa Rana

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

~ Philip K. Dick

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

~ Marya Hornbacher

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

~ Frida Kahlo

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

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.

~ J. Limbu

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

~ Charles Bukowski

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.

~ Curious George Brigade

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

~ Ernest Becker

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

~ Geoffrey Wood

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our inhumanityOur reason coexists with our insanityBut we choose between reality and madnessIt's either sadness or euphoria

~ Billy Joel

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

~ E. Nesbit