Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

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

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

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.'

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

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

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

... the work of lunatics.

The general opinion of Lugard is that he is a lunatic …

I've always been a lunatic.

I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.

I'm a lunatic.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.