Madness Quotes

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.