Seneca the Younger Quotes

Insanity is just a state of mind.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

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.

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

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

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

To do that job you need to be mentally disturbed.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

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

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

I'm a lunatic.

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.