Madness Quotes · Page 36

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

— Florence Welch

“The first sign of madness is a howl that, once uncorked, cannot stop.”

— Sana Krasikov

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

— D. H. Lawrence

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

— Criss Jami

But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.

— Lisa Kleypas

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

— Stephen King

“Don't just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it and lick its ear.”

— Jim Wright

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you…

— Charles Bukowski

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with…

— Voltaire

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any…

— Warren Buffett

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

— Plato

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”

— Susanna Kaysen

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one…

— Tina Fey

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost…

— Whit Stillman

We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and…

— John Connolly

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,…

— Kedar Joshi

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…

— Pierre Charron

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but…

— Philip K. Dick

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people…

— Noel Redding

I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”

— Ania Ahlborn

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

— Anonymous

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

“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

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

— Anonymous

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

— Karen Essex

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

— Piper Payne

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

— Sol Luckman

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

“Insanity is for everyone, Sunshine. All the world's peoples may enjoy its glorious bounty.”

— Amy Fecteau

“...crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.”

— Hilari Bell

“To continue to love someone so far beyond help, beyond redemption, was madness”

— Veronica Roth

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

— Catherynne M. Valente