Going Mad Quotes

“This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Assuming I am mad (Ha!) god, how I must have suffered to go mad. And all the time I was calling to people to save me and no one put out his hand and held it. This is like suicide, only I am alive and looking out of this living death I can see the people weep and feel sorry. Alas, nobody even weeps. It's all a dream.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“What I wanted to tell you about Philidor was that Diderot wrote him a letter. You know Diderot?"
"The French Revolution?"
"Yeah. Philidor was doing blindfold exhibitions and burning out his brain, or whatever it was they thought you did in the eighteenth century. Diderot wrote him: 'It is foolish to run the risk of going mad for vanity's sake.' I think of that sometimes when I'm analyzing my ass over a chessboard.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven

“I was uncomfortable around those who were already mad. They made me doubt my own sanity.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword