15 Movie Quotes about Madness
To understand madness is to be a bit mad
Being mad does not just mean being angry. Madness also means that you are trying to stay sane by being a little insane. So is madness a spiritual/mental disorder or a material/physical disease of the brain? Some would argue that we are all a bit mad. Natural selection wants us to be crazy, at least a little bit. Sounds crazy right? Certain types of depression may be advantageous. Evolution likely favored individuals who pause ambitions and disengage from unattainable goals instead of wasting energy being blindly optimistic. Bipolar individuals also often have more sex than average people. Sometimes unpleasant mental states lead to greater reproductive success. Sex, and survival of one's kids, is the whole point, as far as nature is concerned. Check out our best movie quotes about madness.
From the TV Series: Veronica Mars
“If there's a justification for my actions right now, it's this: I have gone completely mad.”
Kristen Bell - Veronica Mars
From the TV Series: The X Files
“Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.”
David Duchovny - Fox Mulder
From the TV Series: Narcos
“Geniuses are always branded as crazy.”
Wagner Moura - Pablo Escobar
From the TV Series: Gilmore Girls
“A little nervous breakdown can work wonders for a girl.”
Alexis Bledel - Rory Gilmore
From the TV Series: Westworld
“What humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.”
Jeffrey Wright - Bernard Lowe
From the TV Series: Better Call Saul
“Sometimes you have to say something out loud to hear how crazy it sounds.”
Bob Odenkirk - Jimmy McGill
From the TV Series: Supernatural
“Next time you want to get laid...find a girl that's not so buckets-of-crazy, huh?”
Jensen Ackles - Dean Winchester
From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
“I remained too much inside my head, and ended up losing my mind.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Joe Mantegna - David Rossi
From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
Francoise Sagan
Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner
From the movie: Cruella
“The thing is, I’m not sweet Estella, try as I might. I never was. I’m Cruella. Born brilliant. Born bad. And a little bit mad.”
Emma Stone - Cruella
From the TV Series: Orange Is the New Black
“I am not crazy. I am unique.”
Uzo Aduba - Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
From the movie: Malcolm & Marie
“If you’re gonna treat me like an insane person and call me crazy the least you could do is do it without casually eating macaroni and cheese.”
Zendaya - Marie
From the movie: Locked Down
“For some of us the madness never ends.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Paxton
From the TV Series: Mindhunter
“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?”
Jonathan Groff - Holden Ford
From the TV Series: Mindhunter
“Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.”
Anna Torv - Dr. Wendy Carr
