Quotes about Madness

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Mad raging sunsets poured in seafoams of cloud through unimaginable crags, with every rose tint of hope beyond, I felt just like it, brilliant and bleak beyond words. Everywhere awful ice fields and snow straws; one blade of grass jiggling in the winds of infinity, anchored to a rock. To the East, it was gray; to the north, awful; to the west, raging mad, hard iron fools wrestling in the groomian gloom; to the south, my father's mist.

Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then; it would mix up all of my friends and all I had left of my family in a big dust cloud over the American Night.