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Quotes about Madness

I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.
— Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll
And ever since that, the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, He wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.
— Lewis Carroll
I don't much care where-" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," "so long as I get somewhere," "Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough"/ "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."/ Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! The love-gift of a fairy-tale. ?Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass?
— Lewis Carroll
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
— Aldous Huxley
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
— Aldous Huxley
We should feel wonder at nothing at all in Nature except only the Incarnation of Christ." In the seventeenth century, Lallemant's phrase seemed to make sense. Today it has the ring of madness.
— Aldous Huxley
For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.
— Euripides
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.
— Alice Walker