Degrees Quote by Djuna Barnes

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going…

— Paulo Coelho

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand…

— Marguerite Duras

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

— William Shakespeare

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm, then there…

— Bianca Stone

“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…

— Patricia Duncker

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself…

— Carl Jung

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or…

— James Joyce