Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. — Andre Breton
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. — Edgar Allan Poe
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are… — Ray Bradbury
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses. — Edgar Allan Poe
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. — Joyce Carol Oates
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving… — William Shakespeare
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls. — John Updike
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. — Mario Puzo
Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a… — Agatha Christie
I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've… — Jhonen Vasquez
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler… — Herman Melville
And she arose from her deathbed in a gossamer gown, with eyes the color of starlight and hair as black as the night. And those… — Yasmine Galenorn
I am mad - but I choose this madness. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness. — Mick Jagger
Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched… — Guy de Maupassant
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity. — Eckhart Tolle
And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. — Cassandra Clare
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of… — Aberjhani
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise… — Cassandra Clare
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other… — Nicole Krauss
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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