Illness Quote by Virginia Woolf

Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things…

— Virginia Woolf

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at…

— Marya Hornbacher

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

— John Glover

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 is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

— Anne Sexton

It takes madness to find out madness.

— Lady Gregory

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

— Margaret Atwood

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 has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

— Philip K. Dick