“Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness an an excess of any thing else. Truth to tell, I was not quite myself for a time. Truth to tell, I was a little wild.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Jung’s image of the stage of becoming a tree is well illustrated here. The little man is stuck. In the West he would be taken away, perhaps, to an institution and cured back (shock treatment, etc.) to society. Here, he is permitted to sit it out and perhaps go through to Buddhahood—perhaps, on the other hand, simply to remain stuck, as a living symbol of spiritual effort. There are no hospitals, there are no asylums. The lepers sit out on the streets and so do the madmen. But some of the madmen can break through, and these breakthroughs are giving India something that the West really lacks.”
Source: Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“It was while I was seated in an easy-chair in the street the following evening, smoking, watching the combustion of this structure, that something was suddenly born in me, something out of Hell, and I smiled a smile that never man smiled. And I said: 'I will burn: I will return to London...”
Source: The Purple Cloud
“She sees the best in the world.
Not because she is exposed to the best. She’s exposed to the same madness as everybody else.
She chooses to see the beauty in all.”
Source: 99 Sketches: A collection of philosophical and inspirational notes
“Out, in Henry’s view, is a madhouse. Historians of social lunacy will confirm that this is literally the case, that the mad have been let out of the asylums and allowed to walk the streets. But Henry doesn’t mean that. By mad, nerve-strung Henry means revving when you’re stationary and driving with your hand on your horn – read that sexually if you like, but Henry has in mind incessant honking – he means text messaging the person standing next to you, or being wired up so that you can speak into thin air, conversing with God is how it looks to Henry, or wearing running shoes when you’re not running, or coming up to Henry with a bad face and a dog on a piece of string and asking him for money. Why would Henry give someone with a bad face money? Because of the dog? Because of the string?”
Source: The Making of Henry
“Every man has a hidden skill; He knows how to go crazy, like real madman.”
Source: Maxim Maxim
“Crying is not a sadness, because as the tears leave our eyes, some of the pain leaves, too, and we can go on living, and so feel more pain, yes, but some joy, as well.
The line between sanity and madness may be only the ability to shed a few tears.”
Source: The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars
“The world is mad, and it takes a little madness at times to put it back in order again.”
“He was lost in his vanity and I in him, we both were crazy!”
Source: Just the Way I Feel