A Quote by Jack Kerouac

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

Jack Kerouac

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Am Between Incoherent Incomprehensible

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Jack Kerouac
American - Novelist
March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The United States is a madhouse.

Gore Vidal

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

Leo Tolstoy

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

William Empson

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Friedrich Nietzsche

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Anna Freud

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

August Strindberg

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Gregory Maguire

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

Grant Morrison

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Ernest Becker

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

Allen Ginsberg

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it.