Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power — Pen Densham
Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness — Stephen Stills
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if… — Samuel Rogers
Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. — John Milton
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.… — Don DeLillo
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than… — Antonin Artaud
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! — George Bernard Shaw
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. — Nigella Lawson
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or… — Georg Brandes
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. — Tom Baker
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. — Otto Weininger
A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy. — Gloria Trevi
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the… — Alcuin
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a… — Federica Montseny
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up… — John Boyd Orr
He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all… — Linda McCartney
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. — Paul Cezanne
We all go a little mad sometimes. — Joseph Stefano
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. — Dick Van Dyke

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