Madness Quotes

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Dee Remy

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.

William Shakespeare

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness

Terence

Though this be madness, yet there is method

William Shakespeare

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

Charles Dickens

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

A Gentlemen

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Hermann Bahr

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Cassandra Clare

Jack's doctors have told him he is crazy but, the truth is, it's the Voices who are crazy, not him.

Jennifer Daydreamer

There's method in his madness

William Shakespeare

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

Thomas Szasz

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Thomas Szasz

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world

Thomas Carlyle

Why this is very midsummer madness.

William Shakespeare

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

Paulo Coelho

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

Herman Melville