Madness Quotes · Page 5

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

— Ariana Franklin

“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”

— George Orwell

“This is insanity!" "No, this is scholarship!”

— Brandon Sanderson

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

— Stephen King

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

— William Shakespeare

You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The highest level of intelligent is MADNESS”

— Citra Umari

Like madness is the glory of life.

— William Shakespeare

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

— Edward Gibbon

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

— Anonymous

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

— William Ellery Channing

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

— Richard Davenport-Hines

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

— Jennifer Donnelly

Dissoluteness of youth, then get madness if someone becomes affinity

— Mak_786

“I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.”

— Kyril Bonfiglioli

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

— Terry Pratchett

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy…

— Jackie Cooper

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

— Ray Bradbury

“Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.”

— J M Northup

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

— Stephen Fry

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

— Corra May Harris

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are…

— Henry Miller

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

— Wayne Dyer

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas;…

— Anonymous

Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock…

— Michael Savage

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“this mad psycho tells everyone to get into a field and says I’m going to pick one of you just one of…

— Jenny Downham

I always have an item in mind that I want to wear; then, the next day, I put it on, and I…

— Poppy Delevingne

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than…

— Jon Ronson

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted…

— Paulo Coelho

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"…

— A. C. Cuza

We of the craft are all crazy.

— Lord Byron

Fear is a fine spur, so is rage

— Anonymous

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

— Ray Bradbury

“Only in war does the madman become sane.”

— Anthony Ryan

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

— Norman Mailer

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

— Philip Sidney

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

— Laurie R. King

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

— Samuel Beckett