Madness Quotations | Page 5

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness.

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

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

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.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

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

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

Madness is no madness when shared.

My wits begin to turn.

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Like madness is the glory of life.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness

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.

Though this be madness, yet there is method

Love is merely a madness.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

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

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.

Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle

No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring.

The universe without music would be madness.

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.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Too much sanity may be madness.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

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

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

And Something's odd - within -That person that I was - And this One - do not feel the same - Could it be Madness - this?

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

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

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

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

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

Collective madness is called sanity ..

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

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

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.