Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in… — Terry Goodkind
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away… — William Saroyan
Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you… — Marya Hornbacher
You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not… — Anne Carson
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it. — Douglas Adams
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? — Fernando Pessoa
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political… — Pat Conroy
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.... — Emily Dickinson
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day… — Susanna Clarke
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. — Arundhati Roy
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the… — Homer
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no… — Emile M. Cioran
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental… — Carl Jung
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole… — Andrew Sean Greer
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other… — Gail Caldwell
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all… — Yasmina Khadra
Love is merely a madness. — William Shakespeare
Madness in method, that's genius — Frank Herbert
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why… — William Shakespeare
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you.… — Marya Hornbacher
So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made… — Ellen Hopkins
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was… — Anne Fortier

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