Madness Quotes

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.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

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.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

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

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

The universe without music would be madness.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.