Madness Quotes

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

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

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

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

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

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

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.