We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.
I am but a man attempting to be graceful as I slowly decend into madness.
(a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
(a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
They say that it's a crazy world out there. I don't mind contributing by a bit of madness myself.
He was mad, and for that, we have reason to be glad. A truly savage irony, on which it is discomforting to dwell.
Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's...
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.
Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went thro...
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
Were all mad here
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the mater...
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.
Is there any courage, without craziness?
You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's .