Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. — Trevor Baylis
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. — Trevor Baylis
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. — Trevor Baylis
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough. — Niels Bohr
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an… — Oscar Wilde
To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes… — Jim Wallis
Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness. — William S. Burroughs
I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I… — Jim Cramer
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control. — Megan Chance
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast. — Mark Twain
The religion of one seems madness unto another. — Thomas Browne
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire… — Maurice Blanchot
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. — Thomas Brooks
Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as… — Luce Irigaray
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back… — Thomas Sankara
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there... — Armistead Maupin
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these… — Sophocles
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness. — Wayne Dyer
I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated… — August Kleinzahler

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