Madness Quotes

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

~ Elizabeth Lowell

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

~ Terry Pratchett

The picture of the bacchante who stands motionless and stares into space must have been well known. Catullus is thinking of her when he tells of the abandoned Ariadne, who follows her faithless lover with sorrowing eyes as she stands on the reedy shore ‘like the picture of a maenad.’ Indeed, melancholy silence becomes the sign of women who are possessed by Dionysus. […]Madness dwells in the surge of clanging, shrieking, and pealing sounds, it dwells also in silence. The women who follow Dionysus get their name, maenads, from this madness. Possessed by it, they rush off, whirl madly in circles, or stand still, as if turned to stone.

~ Walter F. Otto

I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake, and I am cast over the cliff and hang there by two fingers that are danced and trampled on by the giant unreality.

~ Janet Frame

Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravity. Their own force of attractions. Drawing near and holding fast to whatever entered their own atmosphere ... they would find love and lost love and recover from love and love again.

~ Hannah Tinti

Her presence incites madness within me and yet it calms me.

~ Samin

I thought I knew madness, but I didn’t know it before you.

~ Kitty Thomas

We yearn for a stranger to poke around in our heart. Such an irrational thing it is. Flutter once and lunacy behold.

~ H.s. Crow

How do you stand it? she said.Stand what?All... this. Ella threw out her arm. Does it not make you mad?Clem glanced up. 'Much madness is divinest sense,' She said, and gave a small laugh. There are plenty of mad women in here. I'm not sure I'm one of them though. She shrugged. You'll get used to it.

~ Anna Hope

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

~ Grant Morrison

The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

~ Sam Hawksmoor

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum, this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.

~ Machado De Assis

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

~ Luke Rhinehart

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

~ Machado De Assis

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

~ Lorna Sage

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree What road do I take?The cat asked, Where do you want to go?I don't know answered Alice. Then, said the cat, it really doesn't matter, does it?

~ Lewis Carroll

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

~ David Eagleman

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

~ Nick Harkaway

If all the people break, and all the world breaks, and everyone and everything goes mad, then I can be normal, just like everyone else, right?

~ Jun Mochizuki

Everyone says she’s mad.’‘How do they know?’ I asked.‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’‘Is that being mad?’‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

~ Ruskin Bond

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

~ A.s. Byatt

Oh, you are mad! she exclaimed, quite out of patience.Possibly. But I like my madness.

~ Rafael Sabatini

When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.

~ Akshay Vasu

But the nightmare was a strange comfort to me; in it, I found a sense of escape, and were it possible to go live in that nightmare, I would have, bizzare though that may sound.

~ M.d. Elster

Mad is a label we attach to people we find disruptive and confusing.

~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

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

~ Jeanette Winterson

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

~ Mike Judge

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)-------------Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.(Chapter:Chapter Two)What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. And regarding that there can be no doubt, for it is He in His infinite diligence who has enlightened us so that we may offer you this consolation.”(Chapter:Chapter Two)Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses(Chapter:Chapter Two)Take care,” said Delaura. “Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.”(Chapter:Chapter Three). He confessed that every moment was filled with thoughts of her, that everything he ate and drank tasted of her, that she was his life, always and everywhere, as only God had the right and power to be, and that the supreme joy of his heart would be to die with her. (Chapter:Chapter Five)

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not.

~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

~ Carsten Jensen

Indeed if one had just seen him at the end of the evening with the dusk and the mist of the fenlands close behind him he might have believed that in the dusk and the mist was an army that followed this gay worn confident man. Had the army been there Niv was sane.Had the world accepted that an army was there, still he was sane. But the lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

~ Lord Dunsany

Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.

~ Mindy Mcginnis

His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.

~ Jane Harper

She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness.

~ Akshay Vasu

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

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying thank you too often, which was branded as bourgeois hypocrisy; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.

~ Jung Chang

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.

~ Stephen King

Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it...

~ Deyth Banger

Brave, impossible Alice. Stop being so sensible.

~ Emory R. Frie

It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

~ Lance Conrad