998 Quotes About Madness

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

Notre devoir n’est pas de nous débarrasser du fou, mais de débarrasser le fou de sa folie.

Simply put, if ‘split personality’ is behaving differently under different conditions or stimulus, then each one of us is carrying this syndrome .... however, how stark the gap reaches is entirely dependent upon ourselves. If it is too wide a gap, one becomes a ‘case study’!!

I get enough of crowds even when they’re happy... if they’re scared they’re either going to crucify somebody or worship him

Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.

Les périodes difficiles ne font pas que varier les taux d'intérêt et le nombre d'emplois : elles rendent les gens fous.

I have been afraid of you, Mr. Robert Audley," she thought, "but perhaps the time may come in which you will have cause to be afraid of me.

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?