Madness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.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.

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.

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

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.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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.

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.