madness Quotes

“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even had a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

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“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Taking crazy things seriously is—a serious waste of time.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“There you have the effect of segregation. Man is born for life in society; separate him, isolate him, and his ideas will go to pieces, his character will go sour, a hundred ridiculous affections will spring up in his heart, extravagant notions...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

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“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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