Madness Quotes

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the fe...

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood...

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Ess...

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any mo...

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more ser...

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so dea...

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany...

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the intern...

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having...

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him a...

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I ...

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedie...

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they on...

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their p...

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing mor...

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Madness breeds madness.

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From...

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “Ther...

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets...

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably so...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless...

It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bel...

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd a...

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according t...

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his wor...

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and ...

«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet date...

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

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

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q...

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

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...

Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometime...

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible so...

All Mad"'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of yo...

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, p...

He was mad and plenty brave.

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and social...

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seemTo mock me now, all night, all night, andHave I straye...

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

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean ...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease...

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to c...

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all d...

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule...

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There ...

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

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

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets,...

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor sha...

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, stu...

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hi...

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, an...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...