Insanity Quotes

"'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god . . . " ~ Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare "The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild." ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville "They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!" ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville "You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? I sha'n't tell my reasons for making this inquiry; but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married. ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne