Herman Melville Quotes

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

I think I am mad sometimes.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

Maybe I am a bit mad.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

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

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

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

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.