Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and… — Jack Kerouac
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the… — George Bernard Shaw
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object,… — Thomas Paine
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have… — Saint Augustine
That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun. — Sean Penn
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the… — Unknown Author
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy… — Seneca the Younger
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the… — Michel Foucault
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. — Alfred de Musset
But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind? — Unknown Author
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.… — Mati Unt
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old… — D. H. Lawrence
Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy. — Unknown Author
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. — Stephen King
We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! — Gustave Flaubert
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic… — Kate Millett
That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness? — Sean Penn
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an… — Vincent Van Gogh
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be… — Elie Wiesel
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… — Charles Baudelaire

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