Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle… — Paul Shepard
The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject.… — Cornell Capa
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you.… — Ray Bradbury
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. — Albert Einstein
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to… — Charles Bukowski
Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any… — Caroline Myss
Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded. — Sixto Rodriguez
The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it — Brad Pitt
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have… — Lawrence Clark Powell
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into… — Harvey Milk
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the… — Jean Lorrain
Books were my passion and my escape from madness. — Dorothea Benton Frank
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. — William Shakespeare
Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace. — Pope Francis
The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that… — Italo Calvino
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin
I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship,… — Daniel Topolski
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you… — Dave Matthews
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. — William Hazlitt
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate. — Sophocles
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. — Fernando Arrabal
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects… — Eliphas Levi

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