To remember everything is a form of madness.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

— Blaise Pascal

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

“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

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Not to be mad is another form of madness

— Blaise Pascal

“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

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only…

— H. Burke Peterson

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

— Tobias Wolff