Madness Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

— Seneca the Younger

“There is no great genius without tincture of madness.”

— Seneca

“There is no greatness without a continual solicitation to madness which, while it must be overcome, must never be completely lacking. One might profit…

— Friedrich Schelling

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

— Aristotle

“Where there’s madness, there’s genius. Where there is genius, there’s creativity. We all have it somewhere within us; that hint of madness, spark of…

— Melody Lee

“madness is an idea, entertain it you become the epitome of greatness, ignore it and you a regular bloke”

— Khulekani Muller

“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

— Ernest Becker

“Madness? Categories such as that do not exist – as far as I'm concerned, everything is healthy, except for fruit and vegetables. In art,…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Michel Foucault

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter