Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness. — Unknown Author
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it.… — Charles Bukowski
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you… — Christopher Paolini
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness? — E. Lockhart
To remember everything is a form of madness. — Brian Friel
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love.… — Arundhati Roy
Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? — Megan Hart
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made… — Reif Larsen
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried… — Jack Kerouac
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too… — Gabrielle Zevin
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you… — Alice Walker
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man… — Joyce Carol Oates
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we… — Erich Maria Remarque
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness — Erich Segal
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said… — Steven Millhauser
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar.… — Deb Caletti
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos… — Emile M. Cioran
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together.… — Anais Nin
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it… — Libba Bray

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