Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under" in them, because… — Jack Handey
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness — Seneca the Younger
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people… — Willa Cather
The different sorts of madness are innumerable. — Avicenna
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in… — Paulo Coelho
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness. — Charles Baudelaire
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or… — ZoÃ« Heller
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to… — Nick Flynn
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well… — David Mumford
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. — Norman O. Brown
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they… — Jon Ronson
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. — Mary Butts
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me… — Mark Lawrence
Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread… — Mark Lawrence
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness — Peter Thiel
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural… — Ernest Becker
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for… — Adam Zagajewski
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is… — Carl Jung
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely… — Paul Fussell
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. — Anne Carson
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology… — Peter J. Carroll
When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other… — Gen Urobuchi

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