Quote by Virginia Woolf

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and…

— Laura Elliot

“There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.”

— Osho

“Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity…

— Saul Bellow

“But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.”

— Russell Hoban

“Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.”

— Henrik Tikkanen

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

— Ben Jonson

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter

“…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…”

— Anne Sexton

“People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.”

— José Rizal

“He follows his own way these days, even more than most of us. 'Twas as good a description of madness as any I've heard. ”

— Hilari Bell

“In his own way he recognized his madness, and that was the sort of thing mad people did, right enough.”

— Stephen King

“... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.”

— Joyce Carol Oates