Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the… — Douglas Coupland
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was… — Jack Kerouac
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking… — Sarah Dessen
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood… — Libba Bray
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. — Rohinton Mistry
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one… — Kay Redfield Jamison
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a… — Saul Bellow
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I… — Rick Riordan
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want… — Allen Ginsberg
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of… — William Saroyan
There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror-… — Clark Ashton Smith
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,… — Jane Austen
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,… — John Steinbeck
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You… — Paulo Coelho
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth. — Yann Martel

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