998 Quotes About Madness

Because madness is a lie too. Like night. Like death.

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

I am wondering; an alcoholic and a ‘craziholic’ who is the greater ‘holic’? In other words, the dizziness of drunkenness and the dazedness of madness, which is the greater ‘ness’?

The act of a madman or a drunkard, or of a man labouring under violent excitement seems less free and more inevitable to the one who knows the mental conditon of the man who performed the action, and more free and less inevitable to the one who does not know it

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry.

Non-semnificaţia iubirilor mele & nonşalanţa cu care au fost ele aruncate la gunoi mi-au ciopârţit în primul rând sufletul, mi-au provocat acea stupefacţie care mi-a umplut nebunia cu vitriol.

A logical method is madness to one who isn't taught to understand it. - The Malwatch

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the purity of the original act; I shall be my own citadel, and to it I shall retire to protect myself against a hostile and corrupt world. I shall be my own citadel and, within it, my own and only citizen.