Jack Kerouac Quotes

... madness entered my veins.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

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

I've been insane from a very early age.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

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.

They've lost their minds.

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

I have a plan-to go mad.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

It takes madness to find out madness.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.