Madness Quotes

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

Madness is no madness when shared.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.