All Quotes By Tag: Madness

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”

“This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”

“You don’t seem mad at all,’ she said.But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?”

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

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it’s as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can’t explain his to us, and we can’t explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication … and there is the real illness.”

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

“I turned to Dionysus. “You cured him?””Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple.””But…you did something nice. Why?”He raised and eyebrow. “I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven’t you noticed?”

“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”