mad people QUOTES

1 " Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad. "

― Susanna Clarke , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

2 " Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass. "

― , The Humans

3 " Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments! "

― Mehmet Murat ildan

4 " I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

5 " The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not. "

― Merlyn Gabriel Miller , Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness (Culture is not your friend, Part one)

6 " But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in. "

― Josephine Winslow Johnson , Now in November

7 " Mad people are very emotionally orientated! They have complex feelings, they’re easily upset, but are also easy to please! Most mad people have lonely lives, as nobody understands them. So they become “Lost Souls.” They dream a lot. Go within their minds to search - some will turn strange, become dangerous. So a madman is created! His world becomes a mission. "

― , Insanity: My Mad Life

8 " You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you, "

― Alice Little , Healing the Traumatised Adult