998 Quotes About Madness

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

The relationship between madness and genius has been commented on since Aristotle.

Pon un hombre al filo del abismo y -en el improbable caso de que no se caiga- se convertirá en un místico o en un loco... ¡Lo que probablemente sea lo mismo!

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealing rage with tears, but with continuous sobs, who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.