Arundhati Roy Quotes

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

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

I've always been a lunatic.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

'Insanity... I like it."

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.

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

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

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

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The United States is a madhouse.

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