Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light. — Jennifer Donnelly
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? — Charlotte Bronte
...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness. — Catherynne M. Valente
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful. — William Saroyan
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember… — Alan Moore
I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all… — Garth Ennis
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness - — Guillermo del Toro
Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers'… — William Shakespeare
What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? — Josephine Winslow Johnson
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in… — Hermann Hesse
Collective madness is called sanity .. — Paulo Coelho
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I… — Anais Nin
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had… — Karl Marlantes
Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are. — Grant Morrison
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to… — David Eddings
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?… — Peter Shaffer
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness. — Cassandra Clare
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses — Anais Nin
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes… — George Orwell
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars… — Hermann Hesse
Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to… — Miss Read

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