Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. — Virginia Woolf
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human… — Elizabeth Gilbert
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. — Emily Dickinson
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. — William Shakespeare
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced… — Anthony Trollope
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to… — Javier MarÃas
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… — John Irving
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Being crazy isn't enough. — Dr. Seuss
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it,… — Marya Hornbacher
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I… — Emile M. Cioran
There nearly always is a method in madness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open. — Anton Szandor LaVey
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. — H P Lovecraft
I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America?… — Tori Amos
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth — Billy Corgan
Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks. — C.S. Lewis
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all… — Charlotte Bronte

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