John Milton Quotes

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I was an emotional basket case.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

... madness entered my veins.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.