Madness Quotes

Sanity is madness put to good use.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

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

You call it madness, but I call it love.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

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.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.