Madness Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

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

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.