998 Quotes About Madness

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.

Creators almost always go mad.

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, which was branded as "bourgeois hypocrisy"; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.

But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

He was mad and plenty brave.