Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. — Aristotle
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness… — Emile M. Cioran
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it.… — Marguerite Duras
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness,… — Anne Fortier
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human… — Gore Vidal
Deep connection is the antidote to madness. — Stefan Molyneux
Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness. — Phil Zuckerman
If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can… — Michael Douglas
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our… — D. H. Lawrence
It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire. — Warren Buffett
The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy. — Kendall Jenner
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things… — Charles Bukowski
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as… — Dario Argento
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without… — Geoffrey Wood
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world. — Moliere
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what… — Milan Kundera
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command. — Robert Jackson Bennett
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die… — George Crabbe
Anger is a momentary madness. — Horace
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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