Madness Quotes

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.