Breakdown Quote by R. D. Laing

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

— R. D. Laing

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

— Philip K. Dick

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

— Stephen King

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

— Alan Moore

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

— Albert Einstein

It takes madness to find out madness.

— Lady Gregory

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand…

— Marguerite Duras

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being…

— Anonymous

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

— Bernard Cornwell