Mental Breakdown Quotes

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

They've lost their minds.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

I've been insane from a very early age.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

The torture situation is an external conflict, a contest between the subject and his tormentor … drive him [the subject] deeper and deeper into himself until he is no longer able to control his responses in an adult fashion.

I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've always been a lunatic.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The Madness of President George