Trudi Canavan Quotes

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

... madness entered my veins.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I've been insane from a very early age.