Madness Quotes

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.