Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis,… — Anais Nin
...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.. — William Faulkner
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. — Anais Nin
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the… — Anais Nin
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them… — Alan Moore
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... — H P Lovecraft
She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness… — Anne Sexton
Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man. — Bernard Cornwell
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. — Clive Barker
Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your… — Sully Erna
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in… — James Rollins
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and… — Susanna Kaysen
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
When a guy says,'I'll call you,' and he doesn't say when-that means he won't call you." Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and… — Sarah Rees Brennan
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg
...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness... — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. — Giacomo Casanova
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! — Charles Baudelaire
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea… — Antonin Artaud
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am… — Arthur Machen
Madness is surprisingly freeing. — Mira Grant
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what… — Marya Hornbacher
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher
Love is madness, and lust is poison. — George R. R. Martin

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