Madness Quotes

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.

Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

I don't get mad too much.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

My wits begin to turn.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

He was mad and plenty brave.

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.

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

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

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The gate is always open. And the moon is always bright.

I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me....."You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.