Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer… — Ron Paul
Books have led some to learning and others to madness. — Petrarch
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy. — Michael Phelps
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. — Manuel Puig
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many… — Alexander Pope
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. — Alexander Pope
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. — Ezra Pound
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. — Ramakrishna
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these… — Little Richard
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure. — Joe Rogan
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by… — Bertrand Russell
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. — Thomas Sankara
Sanity is madness put to good use. — George Santayana
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. — Marilyn vos Savant
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I… — Martin Scorsese
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. — Will Self
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far… — Will Self
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an… — Will Self
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! — William Shakespeare
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I… — Shakira
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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