41 Quotes About Madness-and-sanity

It's a madness so discreet that it can walk the streets and be applauded in some circles, but it is madness nonetheless.

I came to know, in those afternoons, that madness can sometimes lead to discovery, that the mind, fractured and short-wired, is not entirely wrong.

Was ist Wahnsinn ? Die Vernunft eines Einzelnen.Was ist Vernunft ? Der Wahnsinn vieler.

Ako nešto znam... Znam koliko ludilo daleko može da ode.

Čovek ni ne sluti kakvo ludilo postoji, sve dok se to ludilo ne otrgne kontroli.

We all are mad. We’re either mad at or mad about someone, the former drive us mad while we are mad keen to be with the latter.

Prone in the prison of this question, Hell or salvation, fired incessantly from the neuronal network in the pallium cowering in the base of the skull, lying motionless or walking out of the question.

The Duke: This La Mancha—what is it like?The Governor: An empty place. Great wide plains.Prisoner: A desert.The Governor: A wasteland.The Duke: Which apparently grows lunatics.Cervantes: I would say, rather...men of illusion.The Duke: Much the same. Why are you poets so fascinated with madmen?Cervantes: I suppose...we have much in common.The Duke: You both turn your backs on life.Cervantes: We both select from life what pleases us.

He hardly ate anything, and only stayed on his feet thanks to his lunacy. But that was a strong stick to lean on. He was not dying anytime soon.