Madness Quotes · Page 39

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

— Anonymous

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

— Evelyn E. Smith

Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

— Anonymous

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...”

— Jack Kerouac

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

— Mark Twain

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

— Terence McKenna

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

— David Icke

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

— Jonathan Coe

“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure…

— Gérard de Nerval

“But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to…

— Paulo Coelho

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don’t know they’re crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell…

— Paulo Coelho

“How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what…

— John Harwood

“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”

— Tina Fey

I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work…

— Isaiah Washington

Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're…

— David Eddings

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit…

— Charles Rosen

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away;…

— John Lennon

Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the…

— Friedrich Wohler

“Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man? Edgerton asks me with a pinprick of…

— Nick Cutter

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective…

— Joseph Heller

“Some kinds of crazy you make for yourself, others you inherit”

— Vikki Wakefield

“what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?—”

— Edgar Allan Poe

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

— Narendra Modi

Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.

— Eric Cantona

Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.

— Vicky Krieps

“Sanity was the gap between perception and desire, and that gap had closed.”

— Max Gladstone

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I'm eclectic in my tastes because of my trauma. It's madness. It's almost ADHD.

— Goldie

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

— Trevor Baylis

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

— Anonymous

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,

— Adam Foulds

“Her presence incites madness within me and yet it calms me.”

— samin

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness,” Aristotle said.”

— Susannah Cahalan

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

— Hermann Broch

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

— John Adams

There is Always some Madness in Love But there is also always some reason to Madness..!

— Anwar