Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

First sign of madness, talking to your own head. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks… — Neil Gaiman
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. — Anais Nin
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All,… — Emily Dickinson
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a… — Khalil Gibran
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and… — Edith Sitwell
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself — Herman Melville
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we… — Albert Einstein
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker — Grant Morrison
Madness is the acme of intelligence. — Naguib Mahfouz
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was… — W. Somerset Maugham
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… — Tom Robbins
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you… — Sylvia Plath
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed — Thomas Moore
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat… — Blaise Pascal
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die?… — Alfred de Vigny
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva

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