Madness Quotes

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

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.

Anger is a short madness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

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

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

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

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

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.

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

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.

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

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.