Madness Quotes · Page 88

The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable,…

— David Rosenhan

There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally…

— Jon Ronson

“He came through the door howling, an axe arched high over his head. His eyes danced in madness, stuck fast on the…

— Amanda M. Lyons

“Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me."…

— Richelle Goodrich

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The…

— Tahir Shah

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun…

— Paul Shepard

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer -…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the…

— Georges Bataille

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures…

— Robert Boswell

“Time is drowning, Hearts are burning, Heads are rolling, Nothing can save you now, Tick tock, tick tock; Creatures talking, Weak are…

— Emory R. Frie

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility…

— Molly Haskell

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

— Aldous Huxley

“For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point…

— C.G. Jung

“All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out…

— Karen Karbo

“He that say madness isn't contagious has never spent his whole childhood locked up in a room without doors or windows where…

— Claes Andersson

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my…

— Theodore Roethke

“I wanted to throw off the chains that bound me and give my entire being to someone. I wanted to know what…

— Navessa Allen

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he…

— Don DeLillo

“I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our…

— B. Justin Shier