Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I think everybody's nuts.

... madness entered my veins.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

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!

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

I have a plan-to go mad.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.