madness

Madness breeds madness.

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.--"The Content of the Psychoses

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness.

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

«_you__e too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You__e had bad internet dates. You__e had people be creeps to you. You__e seen what you__e seen; you__e felt what you__e felt. Ideology is for people who don__ trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world»«I feel like I am going mad»«Madness is actually quite rare in individuals. It__ groups of people who go mad. Countries, cults ... religions»

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, which was branded as "bourgeois hypocrisy"; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.

I thought I knew madness, but I didn__ know it before you.

Everyone says she__ mad.___ow do they know?_ I asked.__ecause she__ different from other people, I suppose.___s that being mad?___o. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it...

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness.

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

We're like little kids. We are little kids, but don't tell us that__e're having a fantastic time. We have our little house, and live our little life. We are the perfect young husband and wife. We have nonstop dinner parties__he glorious food, the fabulous friends, the gallons of wine. I sometimes feel as if I've raced off a cliff and am spinning my legs in midair, like Wile E. Coyote. But I'm fine. It's fine. It's all going to be fine. Crazy people don't have dinner parties, do they? No.

Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.

Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.