998 Quotes About Madness

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Being a functional member of society is overrated. It’s also surprisingly easy to fake.

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

All belief is a form of voluntary madness.

Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.

We all have an ember of madness that lives inside us. Given sufficient oxygen, it becomes a torch. Carrying a torch is dangerous, but it can save you in your darkest hour. My life has taught me that people break, become unhinged, fall completely apart, and then recover. After all, without mud, there would be no lotus flower.

Ama okuduktan sonra, aklını kaçırmış olmadığını eskiden daha iyi anlamıştı. İnsanın azınlıkta olması, tek kişilik bir azınlık olması bile, deli olduğu anlamına gelmiyordu. Bir doğru vardı, bir de doğru olmayan; doğruya sarıldığın zaman, tüm dünyayı karşına bile alsan, deli olmuyordun.

I’m off my rocker, I know it. But why does it feel so good?

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.