I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness…

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

— Blaise Pascal

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time,…

— Charles Dickens

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

— Rohinton Mistry

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was…

— Michel Foucault

Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

— Mel Giedroyc

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of…

— R. D. Laing

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

— George Harrison

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

— Chuck Berry

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

— Ken Cuccinelli

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to…

— Edward Bond

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

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 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

Not to be mad is another form of madness

— Blaise Pascal