Manic quotes

View Quote Every madman thinks all other men mad.

View Quote Für mich ist die Vorstellung untragbar, dass beste, blühende Jugend an der Front ihr Leben lassen muss, damit verblichene Asoziale und unverantwortliche Antisoziale ein gesichertes Dasein haben.

View Quote Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

View Quote For many years he has not breathed the air,The wholesome open air ; the sun, the moon,The stars, the clouds, the fair blue heaven, the spring,The flowers, the trees, and the sweet face of man,Song, or words yet more musical than song,Affections, feelings, social intercourse(Unless remembered in his fairy dreams)Have all been strangers to his solitude ! —A curse is set on him, like poverty,Or leprosy, or the red plague, but worse, —The heart has sent its fire up to the brain,And he is mad.

View Quote For those whom God to ruin has designedHe fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

View Quote Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 10

View Quote G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908), pp. 32-33.

View Quote Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves - and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them.

View Quote Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation.

View Quote Great wits are sure to madness near alli'd.

View Quote H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

View Quote H.P. Lovecraft, letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930), [1]

View Quote Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers: "It is not madness

That I have uttered; bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from."

Madness, then, varies and fluctuates: it cannot "re-word"—if the poet's observation be well founded; and though the Court would not at all rely upon it as an authority, yet it knows from the information of a most eminent physician that this test of madness, suggested by this passage, was found, by experiment in a recent case, to be strictly applicable, and discovered the lurking disease.

View Quote Harlan Ellison comments in the 1979 Comics Journal leading to a lawsuit by Michael Fleisher

View Quote Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?