Madness Quotes · Page 64

“The same word anyone said when they didn’t understand something. Crazy was a way to shut people up, disregard them entirely.”

— Daniel José Older

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

— William S. Burroughs

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea…

— Bram Stoker

You make me mad. you make me crazy. and sometimes make me want to die, but I'm mad in love, crazy for…

— Kenzie-ann

“Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.”

— Jo Nesbø

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

— Marya Hornbacher

“The slope that leads toward insanity has the paradoxical distinction of being both steep and yet undetectable to the person sliding down…

— Suzanne Rindell

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

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so…

— Henry Mackenzie

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to…

— Graham Greene

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

“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause…

— Dave Chapelle

And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought…

— Brandon Mull

If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under"…

— Jack Handey

“[W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time.”

— Mira Grant

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the…

— John Boehner

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its…

— Jean Giraudoux

“And if you don’t know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness…

— Emma Forrest

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release…

— Morgan Freeman

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

— Mick Jagger

When I think about March Madness '98, the first thing that comes to mind is Mark 'Mad Dog' Madsen's unorthodox dance moves.

— Jason Collins

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is…

— Lev Shestov

“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin…

— Anonymous

Nothing is perfect except, perhaps a circle. The pursuit of perfection, leads to obsession and sometimes madness.

— Peter Blaxland

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

— Alexander Blok

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

EROTOMANIA, a psychological disorder that makes a person assume that the one they love is also in love with them.

— Anonymous

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

— Sam Smith

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

— Virginia Woolf

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…

— Michel Foucault

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit…

— Rebecca West

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

— Bernie Worrell

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

— Anonymous