Madness Quotes

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Too much sanity may be madness!

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.