Madness Quotes

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

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

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

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

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

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

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

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

He was mad and plenty brave.

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

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

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

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

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

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

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

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

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

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

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.

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

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

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.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

There is madness in the heart of a man.

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

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.

April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.