Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness,… — William Prynne
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the… — Kedar Joshi
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and… — Kedar Joshi
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable"… — Tama J. Kieves
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca the Younger
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on… — Hans Arp
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… — Joseph Addison
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. — Juvenal
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear… — John Milton
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad… — Edmund Burke
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness. — Laurence Olivier
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the… — Jack Kerouac
Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves. — Eckhart Tolle
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius — Salvador Dali
Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. — Jim Carrey
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one… — Leopold Stokowski
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the… — Augustus William Hare
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,… — Rollo May
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that… — Charles Rosen
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. — Ishmael
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm… — Robert E. Howard
Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy. — Patsy Cline

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