Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness,… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
“Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it. Elizabeth Wurtzel” — Jade West Copy Share Image
Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness. — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm,… — Bianca Stone Copy Share Image
“Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some… — Helen Slavin Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
“Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods! He was human, and only a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his… — Laura Elliot Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer,… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“She was chaos and madness, her heart never sitting still for long, and when I was with her, everything else crumbled away… — Holly Renee Copy Share Image
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps. I was thrown into all this madness of weight… — Gemma Collins Copy Share Image
So heres to all the crazy things we do. We do them for a reason. But you know how crazy I am… — Savannah J Copy Share Image
“The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, insane with you, then simply… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct… — James Frain Copy Share Image
“It keeps them going, staves off the evil day when they will be alone. And to be alone, really alone, without illusion,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived… — David Wain Copy Share Image
I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?” — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. — Edward Robb Ellis Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can… — Allie Gonino Copy Share Image
It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character. — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
