Madness Quotes · Page 52

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

— Anonymous

Better to be 'crazy' with high standards than normal with low standards.

— Anonymous

“the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

— Havelock Ellis

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

— Rachel Caine

I hate it when I'm mad and someone breaks into song singing 'let it go let it go'

— Cassandra Crosby

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

— Aristotle

It is better to be mad and know it, than to calm and doubt.

— Miroslav Mircevski Spasov

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort…

— Rachel Carson

“Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.”

— Kathryn Schulz

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - "The Life of Pi”

— Yann Martel

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long…

— J. Limbu

“There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.”

— Marisha Pessl

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

— Xenophon

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

— Rohinton Mistry

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not…

— Stefan Molyneux

“I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that…

— Jonathan Lee

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have…

— David Krumholtz

“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded,…

— Andrea Gibson

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for…

— Paul Fussell

“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer…

— Tom Conrad

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

— Paulo Coelho

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in…

— Herman Melville

“Blood, sweat, and tea, sister! That's what it takes to achieve all great and terrible things.”

— Emory R. Frie

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

— Winona Ryder

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

— Phillip Lim

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

— Erica Jong

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

— Ugo Betti

“Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.”

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.”

— Rick Yancey

“Crazy people will always be present in our lives.”

— Mike Bechtle

“Always love to the point of madness," he said, "or else what is the point of love?”

— M.J. Rose

“In an electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) society, we all have a certain level of insanity.”

— Steven Magee

“If love and passion is madness, then she was unhinged.”

— Bibiana Krall- of Abulon

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

— Mark Twain

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

— Randy Savage