Madness Quotes

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It takes madness to find out madness.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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.

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

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

To remember everything is a form of madness.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

Madness in method, that's genius

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.