Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

... madness entered my veins.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

The United States is a madhouse.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

America is a lunatic asylum.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

The world has gone a bit mad.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

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

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

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

What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.