Madness Quotes

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

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feeli...

Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...History is a collection of found objects washed up through ...

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live ...

In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we...

Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i...

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a...

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank ...

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being abl...

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as ...

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"The cat asked, "Where d...

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said,...

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structur...

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not...

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as a...

The winter drove them mad. It drove every man mad who had ever lived through it; there was only ever...

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so...

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century a...

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's ...

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

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose ex...

April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at las...

Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. Th...

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

Forgetting himself for a moment, Francis brought his hand out from under his frock in order to bless...

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cu...

Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and thei...

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not s...

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overco...

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is...

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a...

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himse...

He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who co...

I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own...

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e...

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and ...

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, h...

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'l...

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Mua...

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you do...

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

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone says she’s mad.’‘How do they know?’ I asked.‘Because she’s different from other people, I s...

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of role...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, A...

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everythi...

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted ...

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you sh...

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but wit...

In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment s...

Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore...

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’...

I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the...

Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours ...

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret thin...

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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

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

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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