Madness Quotes

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.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.