Perception of Madness Quotes

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?