Quotes about madness

Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Vulgar people are never mad. I'm vulgar myself, and I know. I am now going on shore to stand a drink to everybody here.

I have a suspicion that you are all mad … but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.

“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.

The sign said:

Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.

"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."

Outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.