Distillation Quote by Don DeLillo

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

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

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

— Voltaire

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

— Stephen King

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

Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things…

— Virginia Woolf

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

— Margaret Atwood

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of…

— Michel Foucault

“Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don’t understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.”

— Christoph Fischer

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

— Anne Sexton

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

— Albert Einstein