„Without madness what is manmore than the healthy beast,corpse adjourned that procreates?“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„There is little in common between the organised parading of madness in the eighteenth century and the freedom with which madness came to the fore during the Renaissance. The earlier age had found it everywhere, an integral element of each experience, both in images and in real life dangers. During the classical period, it was also on public view, but behind bars. When it manifested itself it was at a carefully controlled distance, under the watchful eye of a reason that denied all kinship with it, and felt quite unthreatened by any hint of resemblance. Madness had become a thing to be observed, no longer the monster within, but an animal moved by strange mechanisms, more beast than man, where all humanity had long since disappeared.“
— Michel Foucault
„Worse than madness. Sanity.“
— William Golding
„If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.“
— Herodotus