Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Every great genius has an admixture of madness. — Aristotle
A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our… — Richard Bach
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s… — Huston Smith
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad. — Publilius Syrus
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves… — George Santayana
My love's a noble madness. — John Dryden
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration… — Jean Baudrillard
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the… — Robert Benchley
The very madness of the scheme protects it. — Iris Murdoch
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship… — Lin Yutang
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal,… — Pietro Aretino
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… — Susan Sontag
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now… — Diana Trilling
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or… — Fay Weldon
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. — Christopher Fry
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have… — Gabriela Mistral
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness. — Elton John
In my madness I see your face in mine. — David Bowie

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