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“Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
“Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”
“Madness breeds madness.”
“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.”
“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”
“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”
“There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.”
“Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?”
“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it...”
“Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness.”
“Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”
“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not.”
“You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldnt question it.”
“Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.”
“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
“I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the ...”
“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which ...”
