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Madness Quotes (page 4)

…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by... Michel Foucault
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England."Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?"Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there."Why?"'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he. William Shakespeare
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' Graham Swift
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies
Ted Williams quote: "There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate..."
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. Ted Williams
William Shakespeare quote: "O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in..."
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! William Shakespeare
Blaise Pascal quote: "Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to..."
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Blaise Pascal
The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out. Sylvia Plath
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. Joseph Conrad
The Mad Hatter: Have I gone Mad? Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Lewis Carroll
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail. Leon Uris
sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. Jon Ronson
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Edgar Allan Poe

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