Madness Quotes · Page 58

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

— Edgar Allan Poe

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can…

— Peter Kreeft

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's…

— Melissa Marr

The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close…

— William Klein

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

— Matteo Salvini

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

— Tom Baker

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an…

— Jack Kerouac

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

— Georges Clemenceau

The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they…

— Jean Lorrain

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate -…

— Will Self

When I was on the 'Knock Madness' tour, I was just thinking about life; I started questioning God. I was praying a…

— Hopsin

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad…

— Susanna Clarke

“When he did think—when his brain began the slow chugging of rusty gears—the only thoughts that came were unspeakable things like, what’s…

— Jake Vander Ark

“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your…

— Kamand Kojouri

“When dreams are turned away, death becomes the ultimate salvation….There are only two extremes in human madness: the instant when you become…

— Yasmina Khadra

“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything…

— Paulo Coelho

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case…

— George Bernard Shaw

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

— Larry Wall

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

— Samuel Daniel

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

— Michael Gruber

“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

— Kamand Kojouri

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own…

— Julie Powell

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no…

— Saib Tabrizi

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

— Laurie R. King

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…

— Ben Okri

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just…

— Spalding Gray

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

— Alex Lawther

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

— Ringo Starr

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and u will save urself a lot of…

— Catgal

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other…

— Alan Dean Foster

“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in…

— Whitney Houston

Theres a lot of fishes in da ocean...I know!.. But ur one of those DORKY FISH I cant afford to LET GO...…

— Joanne Lobedica

“Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their…

— Scott Lynch

“..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and…

— Jan Kjærstad

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

— Bono

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

— Mark Twain

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Imperfection is Beauty, Madness is Genius, and it's better to be Absolutely Ridiculous then Absolutely Boring.

— Anonymous