Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often… — William H. Gass
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. — Jeanette Winterson
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and… — Yann Martel
Like madness is the glory of life. — William Shakespeare
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. — Gustave Flaubert
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month… — Karen Joy Fowler
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… — Herman Melville
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by… — Brent Weeks
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. — C.S. Lewis
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men — Herman Melville
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the… — Henri Barbusse
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. — William Shakespeare
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he… — Cormac McCarthy
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. — Michel de Montaigne
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. — William Shakespeare
And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said… — Lewis Carroll
I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. — H P Lovecraft
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us… — Khalil Gibran
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. — Joe Orton
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the… — Salman Rushdie
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness — Dean Koontz

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