Madness Quotes

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

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

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

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

Anger is brief madness

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

My love's a noble madness.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

This is too much madness to explain in one text.

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.