Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer
I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s… — Sufjan Stevens
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… — Nick Cave
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to… — Ned Kelly
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way… — Lydia Davis
I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy.… — Gordon Lightfoot
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is… — Unknown Author
Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in… — Ken Wilber
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained… — John Kenneth Galbraith
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. — Philip Sidney
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. — Propertius
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the… — Frank Auerbach
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them… — Marilyn
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush
Success can create more madness than happiness. — Billy Ocean
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I… — William Klein
The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise. — Fernando de Rojas
I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your… — John Moffitt
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. — Mike Rutherford
I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness! — Phillip Lim
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry… — Pierre Charron
As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness. — Emanuel Celler

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