Lunacy Quotes

• He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Hope
  • Inspired
  • Musicians

• Task knew all about skinbags and their money. There was pointless lunacy in the metal of coins, capable of driving a man to evil. He had often wondered why they simply didn’t manufacture more of it, and make everybody happier in the process.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Money
  • Wondered
  • Manufacture

• Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

  

  Arthur Alfred Lynch
  • Anxiety
  • Premonition
  • Lunacy

• Controlled imagination becomes mental work. Introspection is a form of lunacy.

  

  Alfred Richard Orage
  • Imagination
  • Introspection
  • Lunacy

• Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it...

  

  Ari Marmell
  • Seen
  • Sail
  • Lunacy

• She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition. Therefore it was that she searched with earnestness for a heading under which to put Mrs. Wilkins, and in this way illumine and steady her own mind; and sitting there looking at her uneasily after her last remark, and feeling herself becoming more and more unbalanced and infected, she decided pro tem, as the vicar said at meetings, to put her under the heading Nerves. It was just possible that she ought to go straight into the category Hysteria, which was often only the antechamber to Lunacy, but Mrs. Arbuthnot had learned not to hurry people into their final categories, having on more than one occasion discovered with dismay that she had made a mistake; and how difficult it had been to get them out again, and how crushed she had been with the most terrible remorse. Yes.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Sleep
  • Mistake
  • Condition