„I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.“

„Even now I cannot believe that I am still alive and writing this account of the emperor's death. I put my hands to my eyes, wondering if what I am relating here is not all a dream - or maybe it is not a dream: perhaps it is a delusion and I am mad, the victim of some extraordinary and monstrous hallucination. How comes it that when he is dead I am still numbered among the living?“

—  Anna Comnena, kniha Alexiad

„Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?“

—  Elie Wiesel, kniha Night

„Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

„Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

„If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

„We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad“

—  Lewis Carroll, kniha Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

„I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself“

—  Herman Melville American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818 - 1891

„In writing a history of madness, Foucault has attempted-and this is the greatest merit, but also the very infeasibility of his book0to write a history of madness itself. Itself. Of madness itself. That is by letting madness speak for itself.“

—  Jacques Derrida, kniha Writing and Difference

„I think I am mad sometimes.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„I am not mad because I'm a woman… I'm mad because you're an asshole.“

—  Margaret Atwood, kniha Cat's Eye

„I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.“

—  Jane Austen English novelist 1775 - 1817

„They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity.“

—  Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet 1872 - 1950

„But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.“

—  Lewis Carroll, kniha Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

„I am individual, stylish, mad and a lot of fun to be with.“

—  Deepak Perwani Pakistani fashion designer 1973

„mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.“

—  Roland Barthes French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915 - 1980

„Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter
I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice“

—  Lewis Carroll, kniha Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

„It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.“

—  John Fowles, kniha The Collector

„Brasília is a weird place but I like being here. I can focus on the job here, there's no city madness and I don't need urban stimulation.“

—  Gilberto Gil Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician 1942

„I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.“

—  Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997