“Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin”.”
Source: Bass Rock
“You may soon discover that my life does not deviate greatly from any other normal person’s life despite my final destination. Maybe then, my dearest reader, leaving prejudice at the door, you will see the sanity in me…and perhaps the madness in yourself.”
Source: Psycho Author: A dark comedy...or is it?
“It is mad,’ was the reply.
Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clearly a very big problem.”
Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“Sometimes going mad is the only path to freedom.”
Source: The Midnight Ripper
“The difference between a madman and a nincompoop is not all that great, except that madmen probably do less harm.”
Source: The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
“If you look into a madman’s eyes and into the eyes of a mystic, there is some similarity – something vast, something undefined, something nebulous, something like a chaos out of which stars are born. The mystic and the madman have some similarity. All madmen may not be mystics, but all mystics are mad. By “mad” I mean they have gone beyond mind. The madman may have fallen below mind, and the mystic may have gone beyond mind, but one thing is similar – both are not in their minds.”
“At a certain point in my life, I realized that there were only two options: either I was completely losing my mind, or I was finally getting closer to the truth.”
Source: Crazy game called Life
“One drunken night does not a madness make, Essex.”
Source: Heart of Stone
“Dr. R. observed that we should talk a great deal with deranged patients; and we should always in the early & violent stages of mania, seem to agree with their notions. We should admit their premises, but draw a different inference; which may generally be done. To oppose them at first would be like opposing a northeast storm.”
Source: William Darlington notes on the lectures of Philip Syng Physick 1802 [Leather Bound]
“There are many degrees of madness. Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature are to name but a few.”
Source: Signposts to Elsewhere: A Book of Aphorisms