Unstable Mental State Quotes

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

Crazy gets all the knives.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.