Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness...

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.

Those who are sure of their sanity suffer from unawareness while those who feel insane are actually the sane ones.

Have only this consolation–that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled...

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn’t just jump over and have done with it.

Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only...

I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and the other madness, yet he will find no peace on either,...

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity … Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved...

,Quien sabe? Quizas ellos tengan razón. Quizas estamos siendo manejados como locos por nuestros sentimientos. Quizas el amor es una enfermedad y estaríamos mejor sin ella. Pero nosotros elegimos una ruta diferente. Y al final,...

You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

…But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to...

Every town has a psychopath or two. Not just the everyday crazy person, either. Not like Crazy Larry, the paint huffing weirdo peddling around town on a child-sized Huffy ranting about the end of the...

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don’t want his ghost visiting to keep telling...

That is what madness is, isn’t it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don’t make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it’s not a kind of sense anyone else can...

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our inhumanityOur reason coexists with our insanityBut we choose between reality and madnessIt’s either sadness or euphoria

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

If the love is not madness, then the sex is not insane

I happen to be partial to humans – most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

I was standing alone with him when she burst impetuously through the door, tall and wearing a rain-cape on top of a queen’s costume, a forgotten crown on her head.She directed some rapid words at...

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has...

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

…if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, ‘Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?’ I shall answer him, no; that whilst he preserves his reason there...

How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy...

The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one finds oneself engaged in a perpetual and infuriating strife with inanimate objects. How...

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Sabe, sargento, a loucura, quando dá a um grande número de pessoas, chama-se sociedade contempor nea. Quando dá a uma pessoa só, interna-se essa pessoa.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

A big part of March madness is that there are going to be upsets. If Winthrop looks at the No. 2 seeds, they would be thankful they’re playing Tennessee instead of some other two-seed.

Genius – the pursuit of madness.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the...

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified.

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he’d splash in...

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.