Sylvia Plath Quotes

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

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

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?

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

Normal people have nothing to forget.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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

Control your life through insanity.

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