Madness Quotes

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

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.

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.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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.

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.

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.