Temporary Madness Quotes

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.