Madness Quotes

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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

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.

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

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.