238 quotes found
“I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.”
“Nobody's sane above the law.”
“Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.”
“I do have a reason for my insanity. I fear regret.”
“At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.”
“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
“About his madmen Mr. Lecky was no more certain. He knew less than the little to be learned of the causes or even of the results of madness. Yet for practical purposes one can imagine all that is ne...”
“I am but a man attempting to be graceful as I slowly decend into madness.”
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.”
“Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.”
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
“Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general ...”
“First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
“I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.”
“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were ...”
“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
“Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.”
