Madness Quotes · Page 27

Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

— Kevin Spacey

“The greatest madness is to see life as it is, not as it should be.”

— Brad Barton

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

— George Orwell

This is too much madness to explain in one text.

— Leeon Jones

“It’s impossible to make sense of crazy. Better to sympathise.”

— Keri Lake

“How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?”

— Claire Merle

“It’s always good to be a little crazy, to keep the perfectly normal people away from you.”

— Zach Zimmerman

Craziness is what makes the world round, without crazy, there wouldnt be passion.

— Wes Campton

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by…

— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path…

— Jim Wallis

A million times I tried to run after you, but over and over again you tripped me & pushed me away from you...

— Joanne Lobedica

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is…

— Jack Kerouac

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are…

— John Updike

“Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

— Damon Albarn

Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on…

— Dave Chappelle

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's…

— Jessica Mitford

There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous…

— Clark Ashton Smith

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than…

— Sufjan Stevens

You push so far past the normal boundaries of what’s O.K. in society. I’m always fully aware of, ‘You can’t do this’……

— Melissa McCarthy

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the…

— Antonin Artaud

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while…

— Steven Millhauser

I'm not acually mad at you, I just want you too care.

— Anonymous

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

— Joan Sutherland

“Sometimes certainty can sound an awful lot like madness.”

— Ann Aguirre

“It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.”

— Dave Eggers

Even may I be mad, but I'm quite aware of my madness.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The world falls apart from time to time, and madness happens.”

— Dean Koontz

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

— Herman Melville

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

— Eddie Rabbitt

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

— Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

— Anonymous

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

— Libba Bray

“That's what all crazy people say, that they're perfectly normal.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Her silence should be feared more than her words.”

— Piper Payne

“What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?”

— Karen Essex

“By any reasonable definition of the term, the Archons are crazy.”

— Sol Luckman