Madness Quotes · Page 26

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

— Lynda Obst

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

— Robert M. Pirsig

“It all depends on where we set our “crazy meter”.”

— Sujay M. Kansagra

“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I hate how after and arguement,I manage to think of really clever stuff I should have said.

— Anonymous

“The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic.”

— Alice McDermott

Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.

— Anonymous

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

— Zadie Smith

Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.

— Louise Bogan

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

— Anthony de Mello

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a…

— Sylvia Plath

“I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to…

— William Shakespeare

“...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told…

— Shyreen Tyler

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

— William Shakespeare

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

— Terry Pratchett

“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity. From "Butterfly…

— Edward P. Jones

“It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations…

— Peter J. Carroll

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among…

— Khalil Gibran

“Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that…

— David Foster Wallace

I can't fight off this feeling that was once so real for me. But it was only a dream. I could swair…

— Jade

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I struggled with kind of fighting with the inner illnesses within myself where my psychological madness and I have always kind of…

— Maria Brink

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You…

— Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes, the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

— Susanna Kaysen

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

— Melissa Joan Hart

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

— Paul Theroux

“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”

— Atticus Poetry

“Sometimes doing what's necessary seems crazy but it's the highest form of sanity.”

— Shane Kuhn

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

— Moliere

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

— William Shakespeare

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

— Anna Castillo

Most of us are just crazy people with good intentions. Problem is, a lot of us are in denial.

— Romany Malco

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

— Anonymous

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

— James Scott Bell

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

— Bertrand Russell

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity...

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“[...] and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

— Jim Carrey

“There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.”

— Blanco