Sarah Waters Quotes

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

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

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

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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

Madness breeds madness.

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

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

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 think everybody's nuts.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

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

Insanity is contagious.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

'Insanity... I like it."

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Insanity is catching.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.