A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

Half of the Ullers are half-mad, the saying went, and the other half are worse.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is, — though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

There are those to whom one must advise madness.