Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
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