Margaret Atwood Quotes

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

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

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

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.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

I teach that all men are mad.

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

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

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

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

The world has gone a bit mad.

You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

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

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.