History Quotes / SpaceMadness

-->-- ''The Museum of Unnatural History'', by David M. Henley

-->-- ''The Museum of Unnatural History'', by David M Henley

->''"They think I'm crazy. But I know better. It is not '''I''' who am crazy. It is I who am '''mad'''!"''

-->-- '''The Burning Bridge''' by Creator/PoulAnderson.

->''"I fear that when our master reached for the stars, he came down with a touch of...space madness."''
-->-- '''[[TheStarscream Starscream]]''' on [[BigBad Megatron]], ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''

->''"It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound, no chance of seeing home again ... Somebody help me I'm missing, somebody help me I'm missing now touch with my mind, I have no frame ... no people around, no-one to touch. I am now quite alone, part of a vacant time-zone, here floating in the void..."''

-->-- '''Holly''', ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Queeq"

->'''Tumii:''' He has already certified free of transmissible celestial dementia.
->'''John:''' We're callin' it space madness.
-->-- ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', "Coup by Clam"

->''"All the conditions necessary for murder are met if you shut two men in a cabin and leave them together for two months.."''
-->-- '''Valery Ryumin''', ''Russian Cosmonaut''

->''Out here, there’s a lot of ways to go crazy. Get cooped up in a passenger module not much larger than a trailer, and by the time you reach your destination you may have come to believe that the universe exists only within your own mind: it’s called solipsism syndrome, and I’ve seen it happen a couple of times. Share that same module with five or six guys who don’t get along very well, and after three months you’ll be sleeping with a knife taped to your thigh. Pull double-shifts during that time, with little chance to relax, and you’ll probably suffer from depression; couple this with vitamin deficiency due to a lousy diet, and you’re a candidate for chronic fatigue syndrome.''

->''Folks who’ve never left Earth often think that Titan Plague is the main reason people go mad in space. They’re wrong. Titan Plague may rot your brain and turn you into a homicidal maniac, but instances of it are rare, and there’s a dozen other ways to go bonzo that are much more subtle. I’ve seen guys adopt imaginary friends with whom they have long and meaningless conversations, compulsively clean their hardsuits regardless of whether or not they’ve recently worn them, or go for a routine spacewalk and have to be begged to come back into the airlock. Some people just aren’t cut out for life away from Earth, but there’s no way to predict who’s going to going to lose their mind.''
-->-- ''The Emperor of Mars'' by Creator/AllenSteele

->Gustav spent the next fifteen years rotating through a stim-diet of [[DrugsAreBad psychotropic phantasmagoria]], [[LotusEaterMachine simulated life programs]], and [[DeepSleep pharmacological comas]]. It was during the return leg of the journey that he coined the term "[[PerfectlyCromulentWord ludicroustic]]." The food reserves hadn't kept as well as hoped, so Gustav had to rely more heavily on the protein recycler than was deemed safe. [[AndIMustScream Tubed permanently to his chair]], there were few intermissions from the Computer Reality Feed.
--->Insanity is where one misperceives the external world but [[BlatantLies I am not insane yet]]. It is just that the world presented to me is [[MushroomSamba too strange to bear]] and I have become ludicroustic. My senses and foldback are artificially controlled and lack the complexity of what I remember of Earth living. I have been a king, a queen; I have been all things and suffered all the fates I could desire. Not even the breakfast simulator can save me now.
->Obviously, these long voyages were not for the human body or mind, and thus the Human Seed Project was given a further boost.
-->--''The Museum Of Unnatural History,'' by David M Henley

->''"Separation from the earth with all of its unconscious symbolic significance for man,...might in theory at least be expected...to produce--even in a well-selected and trained pilot--something akin to the panic of schizophrenia⁠."''
-->-- Psychiatrist Eugene Brody, speaking at the 1959 Symposium on Space Psychiatry

->"Space has that effect on some people. When you look too long into emptiness, the emptiness gets inside ya."

-->-- ''Rocketship Voyager''

->''Spacefleet regarded such luxuries as a necessary evil, undertaken only after several outbreaks of so-called space madness: a catchall phrase for the stresses and phobias that were inevitable when you locked people in a steel can and cast them into a deadly vacuum whose infinity was incomprehensible to the human mind.''

->''Spacefleet regarded such luxuries as a necessary evil, undertaken only after several outbreaks of so-called space madness: a catchall phrase for the stresses and phobias that were inevitable when you confined people in a metal prison and cast them into a deadly vacuum whose infinity was incomprehensible to the human mind.''

-->-- Thomas Pruitt''', ''Film/AdAstra''

-->-- '''Colonel Pruitt''', ''Film/AdAstra''