Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness — Michel Foucault
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then,… — Bram Stoker
why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by… — Charles Bukowski
Worse than madness. Sanity. — William Golding
Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse — Carl Sagan
And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye… — Charles Bukowski
The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up. — Marya Hornbacher
wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness — Cassandra Clare
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And… — George R. R. Martin
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous… — Luke Davies
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9, — Rafael Sabatini
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing… — Hunter S. Thompson
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And… — Mohsin Hamid
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,… — James A. Baldwin
It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the… — Jeanette Winterson
Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. — Stuart Hill
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried… — Margaret Mitchell
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has… — Unknown Author
Ren frowned as he surveyed the madness they were knee-deep in. “Why are you under such heavy fire?” Nick gave him a droll stare. “Oh,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the… — Brandon Mull
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their… — Paulo Coelho
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us… — Harold Bloom
It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness… — Emma Forrest
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. — Philip Sington
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. — Jack Kerouac

Who Wrote These Madness Quotes

825 authors contributed a total of 1,261 Madness Quotes, led by these top contributors: