madness Quotes

“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

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“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

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“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

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“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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