Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it… — Spalding Gray
But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us. — David Farland
Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in. — Barbara Januszkiewicz
If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. — Emma Forrest
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives...… — Susan Orlean
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness, — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular… — Gerald Durrell
You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its… — Kay Redfield Jamison
One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which… — Napoleon Hill
Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe. — Meera
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. — Seneca the Younger
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie!… — Marie Corelli
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love… — Steven Saylor
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of… — John Calvin
Love is . . . a madness most discreet — William Shakespeare
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English… — Hunter S. Thompson
I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry,… — Richard Branson
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... — Anton Szandor LaVey
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him… — Elsa Morante
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following… — William Wordsworth
And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. — Thomas Gray
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed… — Khalil Gibran

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