998 Quotes About Madness

Crying is not a sadness, because as the tears leave our eyes, some of the pain leaves, too, and we can go on living, and so feel more pain, yes, but some joy, as well. The line between sanity and madness may be only the ability to shed a few tears.

In a thunderous storm her heart cried out in a roar in pain.

In a thunderous storm her heart cried out in a roar of pain

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psychological contents as outer-world creatures and demons who threaten to engulf and physically destroy him. The barriers between inner and outer, subject and object, dissolve so entirely that no boundary remains to protect the ego from the onslaught of this projected unconscious material.

And just like the madness of a man who, not knowing how to sail, might take to the sea with no one to pilot him, is the madness of a creaturewho enters upon religious life without God's will to guide her.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

I felt a certain pleasure that I might die young, knowing that I will not be judged by the standards of this world

It is sad comedy the way sane people clad in rough fad fit only for the insane. The unkempt hair, torn clothes, sagging pants, topless tops, ladder high heels, solar panel sunshades, slits longer than clothes, etc. Madness is everywhere!