“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
“[T]he tumultuous history of the revolutionary era was responsible for a predilection among the French to, quite simply, go mad.”
Source: The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
“What is madness if not everything that science has not yet managed to prove?”
Source: No, You're Crazy
“May the power of the universe strike you down with the madness of love! May you fall madly, deeply, and fully in love with someone that neither of you will recover from the depths and the strengths that you will share. May you find your Forever Love!” Stephanie’s voice was like what Annabella had imagined an Angel’s voice would sound like, full of love and sincerity.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“To become so possessed by a character you begin to play the part. A sort of Method Acting that is also a conjuring up. Jean Rhys POSSESSED by Bertha, who she first calls Antoinette Cosway. In the novel Rhys unravels what led to her being renamed, being destroyed, going mad, madness in her novel as the death of self.”
Source: Heroines