Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. — Nina Simone
Don't get even, get mad. — Frank Sinatra
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your… — Will Smith
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. — Bruce Sterling
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. — Jonathan Swift
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. — Thomas Szasz
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. — Thomas Szasz
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. — Hunter S. Thompson
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. — Shania Twain
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. — Robin Williams
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or… — Naomi Wolf
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. — Thomas Wolfe
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. — Neil Young
How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' — Henny Youngman
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Madness, and then illumination. — Orson Scott Card
Eccentricty had flowered into madness. — Laurie R. King
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace — Leo Tolstoy
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that… — Sarah Vowell
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like… — Margaret Cho

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