Quotes about madness

„I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

„The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.“

—  Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

„I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

„Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.“

—  The Notorious B.I.G. American rapper 1972 - 1997

"Think BIG"
Song lyrics

„Yes, I was a funny guy for a long time. When I started out, I just wanted to write humor. I wrote humor for kids. My very first book was called How to be Funny. It was about how to get big laughs at the dinner table and how to get laughs in school. Parents hated this book. I wrote joke books, like A Hundred and One Monster Jokes, and other joke books for years. I did maybe a hundred of them. I had a great time, and I did this humor magazine called Bananas for ten years. It was sort of Mad Magazine, but it was all in color, and it was great. That was all I ever wanted to do. I couldn't believe it. When that ended, I figured I would just coast for the rest of my career. That was it. I'd already done what I wanted to do. I had no idea what was coming up.“

—  R.L. Stine American writer and producer 1943

Reading Rockets interview http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/stine/transcript hi you know it’s me cardi B

„So you're a tough guy
Like-it-really-rough guy
Just-can't-get-enough guy
Chest-always-so-puffed guy
I'm that bad type
Make-your-mama-sad type
Make-your-girlfriend-mad type
Might-seduce-your-dad type
I'm the bad guy, duh
I'm the bad guy“

—  Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

"Bad Guy"
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)

„A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.“

—  Emily Dickinson, A little Madness in the Spring

1333: A little Madness in the Spring

„To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.“

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher 1712 - 1778

„If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

„Billie and I got chased through the traffic once in a car. You expect paparazzi to do that, but when it's normal people you start to think the world's gone a bit mad.“

—  David Tennant Scottish actor 1971

Radio Times interview (April 2007) http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/doctor-who/david-tennant-interview-2007/

„I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.“

—  Allen Ginsberg, book Howl and Other Poems

Variant: Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Source: Howl and Other Poems

„On my Youtube page there are so many haters. They just say crazy stuff. Like, I'm not mad. I'm 16 years old and I don't have chest hair and I'm not angry about it at the moment. That will come. People are like, "Look at him he puts helium in his voice before he sings."“

—  Justin Bieber Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994

You just have to laugh at yourself. It's funny.
Interview on The Ellen Show, "Ellen Chats With Justin Bieber", 3 November, 2010

„People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.“

—  Iris Murdoch, book A Fairly Honourable Defeat

A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.

„The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„A man does not kill himself, as is commonly supposed, in a fit of madness but rather in a fit of unendurable lucidity, in a paroxysm which may, if so desired, be identified with madness; for an excessive perspicacity, carried to the limit and of which one longs to be rid at all costs, exceeds the context of reason.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

The New Gods (1969)

„I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

„If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.“

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951