Madness Quotes

Insanity is catching.

— Terry Pratchett

Insanity is the norm.

— Steve Fowler

My wits begin to turn.

— William Shakespeare

We're all going insane.

— Patience

“Love like crazy.”

— Scott Stabile

Sanity is a cozy lie.

— Susan Sontag

“The madness all over”

— Ernest Hemingway

Sadness is madness.

— Sabeen Rasheed

“The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!”

— Eugene O'Neill

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

— Anonymous

“And insanity is catching.”

— Anonymous

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

— Janet C. Long

All boys belong in insane asylums.

— Brandon Mull

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

— Aristotle

“And with madness comes the light.”

— Karina Halle

“Crazy was a hard state to define.”

— Stephen King

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“To continue to love someone so far beyond help, beyond redemption, was madness”

— Veronica Roth

“...crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.”

— Hilari Bell

“Insanity is for everyone, Sunshine. All the world's peoples may enjoy its glorious bounty.”

— Amy Fecteau

“Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.”

— Luis Marques

“We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.”

— Haruki Murakami

In all of this madness, there is still philosophy.

— Anonymous

And we are, we are, we are, we are, we are. The crazy kids, them crazy, them crazy kids.

— Kesha

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some…

— Petrarch

“Madness has an enormous pavilion Where it receives folk from every region, Especially if they have gold in profusion.”

— Anonymous

“But flaming youth in all it's madness Keeps nothing of its heart concealed: It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are…

— Alexander Pushkin

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to…

— John Green

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your…

— Anne Lamott

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

— Michel Foucault

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity…

— Félix J. Palma

“Those teetering on madness hold keys to doors you know nothing about. You must ask yourself if these rooms are worth visiting—if…

— Christopher Hawke

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and…

— Eliphas Levi

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and…

— William Saroyan

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is…

— Charlotte Bronte

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to…

— Russell Brand

“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and…

— Judith Spencer

“music. It was a cacophonous din, with too many guitars and not enough melody. It was, I thought, the sound of madness,…

— Gail Honeyman