Quote by Amor Towles

“imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”

— Amor Towles

“But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.”

— Russell Hoban

“Madness is somewhere between chaos and having a dream.”

— R.M. Drake

“As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.”

— Miles Keaton Andrew

“How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt…

— John Harwood

“Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity…

— Saul Bellow

“I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.”

— James Lee Burke

“I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.”

— Stephanie Ericsson

“Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...”

— Jack Kerouac

“It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.”

— Stephen King

“Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?”

— George Etherege