Madness Quotes Quotes

“Are you insane?”
“When humans are not able to fathom the behaviour, actions, and motivations of others, they dismiss them as insane.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“When humans are not able to fathom the behaviour, actions, and motivations of others, they dismiss them as insane.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“I truly believe it’s possible for people who are quite nuts to function on this planet and hold down responsible positions in the field of endeavour and work. They’ll often be cheerful chappies, capable but quite batty. For the most part they’re just cheerful dickheads”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“And if love be madness,
may I never find sanity again.”
― John Mark Green

“It is sheer madness sometimes, but often, madness is needed to separate the winners from the losers.”
― Ari Gunzburg, The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny

“THE FIVE WAYS OF HIGH INTENSITY SELF-DECEPTION

So, since we postulate psychosis as a continuum of self-deception experiences, it is appropriate to distinguish the main channels that the effort of self-deception, when carried out in a superlative way, would use to materialize

a) Memory impairment
This would be the case of one who remembers more easily successes than their failures at one end of low-intensity self-deception, or who changes his entire biography adopting a false identity at the other end, and through different gradations of self-deception.

b) The alteration of the information from the 5 senses.
This would be the case of hallucinations.

c) Alteration of reasoning and logic.
Even being true, the information coming from the memory and the five senses, it is possible to process it so that it reaches conclusions that are away from the premises and thus achieve self-deception. An attenuated example of this would be known "bias" and a stronger then this would be the total distortion of logic and language.

d) Mysticism.
While respecting the information that comes from the five senses, memory, and without destroying logic or reasoning, self-deception could be carried out in superlative dimensions if you follow the path of mysticism. Here, the mechanism operates like believing in stories that, because they are mystical, take place beyond the perceptible and, therefore, do not contradict the information provided by the five senses.

e) Mixed.
The fifth way, which will be the most common, will be a mixture of all –or some– of the above, in different proportions. In the famous Schreber case, for example, a mystical-type story is seen, along with certain "bizarre" content in its composition”
― Martín Ross, THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.

“A sadist is he who blame others for his failure”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“We are souls in the flesh
specters caught between
the limbo of yesterday and tomorrow
illusions of the present
imposters in these skins

I am rain blown sideways by the wind
My art, my love, my hunger slows the descent
I spread out like a shadow on the pavement
stomped on by what is, saved by what is not
but is and is not are so fickle

Reality and dreams dress up as one another
playing musical chairs in the mind
and if you are so lucky that a dream seizes
the throne and turns your mind into an imagination, do not revolt, do not resist

Become your madness
Become the fool”
― Connor Judson Garrett, Become The Fool

“Sometimes this whole world looks very strange to you, the things you do seem strange to you, the behaviour of people, the conversations you hear here and there, the clothes, the roads, the plants, the animals, literally everything seems so strange to you! And let me tell you something weirder, that's exactly the feeling you should feel about this world, everything is really weird! Don't feel that you are mad when everything seems weird to you, because when everything seems normal to you, that’s real madness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We all need a touch of madness to heal our sadness.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“The main role of intoxication is to set the drinker free from the bonds of his selfhood—the 'ego' which is the source of all multiplicity, enmity and war—and ultimately, to lead him to the realm of Unity and peace with all.
Not only is the mystic poet a lover intoxicated with the wine of beauty, he is also a 'madman' outside the confines of convention and reason.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“While the Mystic masters prided themselves on being 'lunatic', this was understood in two distinct senses: one, a lunacy below reason, and another, a lunacy above reason. The second type of lunacy, in the words of Shakespeare, is a 'fine frenzy', whereas the first type is the neurotic or psychotic insanity belonging to the field of abnormal psychology. Thus, where Rumi exclaims:

I am a lover, skilled in the arts of madness;
I am surfeited with culture and learning.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“A head to a head will make the whole world to go mad”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I treat every animals around me with love and care including human but I am not mad enough to treat a mad elephant with love and care to cause my own death like Mahakavi Subramania Bharati”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A real fool is he who appreciates the madness in others”
― J. Tisa

“If your life is boring, add some madness to it; if your life is very boring, add a lot of madness to it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The UTMOST MADNESS Is To QUESTION OTHERS For Your ANSWER”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“To my enemies I appear like a madman, to my admirers like a sage and to those who do not know me, I simply appear like a stranger in front of their senses.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I felt like kicking myself, because of course everything was madness here and I was a fool to have expected otherwise.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“We keep our eyes out of the sun, not because we are weak; but because we want to apply reason over madness.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If only we could predict the future, foolishness wouldn't have existed in the first place. It would become a choice rather than a necessity.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The difference between a madman and a nincompoop is not all that great, except that madmen probably do less harm.”
― Gerald Morris, The Ballad of Sir Dinadan

“A pre-recorded message, timed to go off just as the crowd was reaching a fever pitch. A way to get them to take that one step further and push them from civility and into madness. Stocks are running out. Stocks are running out. STOCKS ARE RUNNING OUT.”
― Joshua Krook, Black Friday 2050: The powerful psychological thriller set in a terrifying high-tech future

“I am raging. I am screaming.
But they think of it as art.
It may be art.
Does it matter, though?
I am dying.”
― S.A. Quinox

“Like waking up, the horrifying reality of madness appears to me slowly and all at once, and I wish to die because all I want is for the noise to stop.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“Madness lives in me.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“In this madness you will find your way.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“I’m far from madness, the closest thing to insane, but definitely crazy.”
― Marion Bekoe

“My creativity runs on silliness, openness, madness, excitement, and a whole lot of God.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Success requires a bit of sanity and a lot of madness. I’m all in on the madness.”
― Marion Bekoe