E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.

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

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think everybody's nuts.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

It's a crazy world!

Insanity is contagious.

There are always loose ends in real life.

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

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

They be crazier than we are.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

How plotless real life was!

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.