Mental Disarray Quotes

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

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

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.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

The United States is a madhouse.

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

I don't know how I feel right now.

It takes madness to find out madness.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I think some people are mentally unstable, and I don't think I should be around them.

I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.