A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
Tom StoppardTags: madness talking-to-yourself
It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.
James ConnollyTags: truth reality morality humanity war death madness hypocrisy destruction elite aggression civilized jingoism ww1 ruling-class james-connolly
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.
Elizabeth WurtzelTags: madness depression prozac
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
Douglas AdamsDearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
Ian McEwanTags: love madness heart lovers
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
Thomas PynchonTags: madness mental-health octopi octopus slothrop
Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?
Tags: madness nothingness
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel LeeTags: insanity madness mad psychiatry mental-health mental-illness mental-disorder mental-health-stigma insane-world insanity-is-normal psychiatry-humor
He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald BarthelmeBe careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
G.K. ChestertonTags: madness
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