Madness Quotes

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.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

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.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Anger is a short madness.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.