Madness Quotes - Page 24

• Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lonely, Play, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.707, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Moments, Chinks

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.214, Penguin Books India

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Strong, Adventure, Blood

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• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Cutting, Love Is, Perhaps Love

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Mind, Forbidden Things

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.383, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Sadness, Loss

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• If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jealous, Heart, Want

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• Love is merely a madness.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Happy Love

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Madness in method, that's genius

  Frank Herbert

  Genius, Method

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.376, Penguin

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• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

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• Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire. You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Car, Long, Water

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Flames

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• Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

  Anne Fortier

  Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

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• Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Eye, Light

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.192, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Delusion

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• ...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Grace, May, Midst

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• I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

  William Saroyan

  Hurt, Grateful, Knows

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, en.wikiquote.org. 1939.

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• And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Eye, Frodo

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Train Of Thought, Finding Yourself

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?

  Garth Ennis

  Blood, Leaving, Darkness

  "Dangerous Habits, Part 1: The Beginning of the End (Hellblazer, Issue 41)". Book by Garth Ennis, May 1991.

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• Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

  Tanith Lee

  Born, Things To Do, Dies

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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