Madness Quotes

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.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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.

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 extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

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.

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.

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

Sanity is madness put to good use.

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.