Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would…

Not to be mad is another form of madness

— Blaise Pascal

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their…

— Samuel Smiles

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive…

— Andrew Cohen

“Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity…

— Saul Bellow

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

— Anonymous

To remember everything is a form of madness.

— Brian Friel

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

— Esme Raji Codell

“In the moment all is dear to me, dear that in this logic there is no redemption, the city itself being the highest form…

— Henry Miller

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love…

— Nick Cave

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be…

— Saul Bellow

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to…

— Blaise Pascal

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Elie Wiesel

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg