998 Quotes About Madness

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

Tu pratique la dichotomie comme personne, tu sais. Tu as l'incroyable faculté de te dédoubler en deux personnes totalement différente. Je dis deux, mais c'est pas modestie. En vérité, tu peux être une infinité de personnages. N'es-tu pas auteur, après tout ? C'est ton métier, non ?

Mapenzi ni wazimu, kama si wazimu si mapenzi.

The desert is too quiet place for our thoughts.

My genius is crumbling. I’m not complaining; it’s just that it hurts

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.