Bessie Head Quotes

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

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

Worse than madness. Sanity.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!