Madness Quotes · Page 42

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

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

— Blanco

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

— Jim Carrey

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

— Ville Valo

“That is part of life. And life is more beautiful with a little madness in it.”

— Osho

I will strike upon those who do evil things. Mark my words. I will soon start a thunder storm

— Anonymous

“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another…

— Malcolm Bradbury

“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world…

— Thomas Hardy

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which…

— William Saroyan

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

— Susannah Cahalan

“Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily…

— Stephen King

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he…

— Zhuangzi

“Some people don't know who they are. Crazy people know exactly who they are. Normal people who obey every rule will never…

— Layne Kares

“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in,…

— Nathan Filer

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its…

— David Mumford

“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in…

— Hilary Austen

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised…

— Sarah Vowell

“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors…

— Upton Sinclair

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only…

— Desiderius Erasmus

There's nothing so cruel as memory. The pointy, bitey little thunderbolts. Unwanted party crashers, screamers through your synapses. Inescapable, unrelenting...not at all…

— Unkown

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your…

— Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

“Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!”

— Charles Dickens

“It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”

— Knight of the woeful countenance

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

— George Carlin

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

— James Scott Bell

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

— Shane Kuhn

“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”

— Atticus Poetry

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

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