Madness Quotes · Page 41

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

— Philip K. Dick

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

— Mark Twain

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

— Anonymous

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

— Channing Tatum

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

— Fernando de Rojas

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?”

— George Price

That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.

— Edgar Allan Poe

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in…

— Edmund Burke

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

— William Shakespeare

“I‘m heir to madness. Vessel of perversion. Your nightmare should you cross me." Daryl‘s chin lifted, trembling. "Indeed. We might be sisters…

— Kim Harrison

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

— Michel Foucault

Always remember who you're really MAD at. You're mad at someone in your past not the innocent people who haven't done anything…

— Sonya Parker

I am not a country girl at all. I tried the whole country dream and it didn't work for me. I need…

— Laila Rouass

“Everyone’s weird, though. If you’re not even a little weird, you are truly weird. In that bad way. Not in the good…

— Maurene Goo

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

— Avril Lavigne

Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your…

— George R. R. Martin

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then…

— Wangechi Mutu

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against…

— Adam Zagajewski

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased…

— Anonymous

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it…

— Louis de Bernieres

Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on…

— Robert Pollok

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

— Anonymous

“Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final”

— Rita Stradling

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

— Bernard Cornwell

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

— Allan Bloom

“The only way to survive insanity is to admit it.”

— Cameron Jace

“Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.”

— C.G. Jung

“I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.”

— Gary Shteyngart

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

— Emile M. Cioran

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

— Josh Malerman

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired… - Comte de Toulouse

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“If sanity is a frame of mind then insanity must be a mind without a frame”

— Christopher V.V. Parnell

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

— Hisham Matar

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

— Cormac McCarthy

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

— Anonymous

“Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.”

— Floriano Martins