Top 100 Love Is Not Madness Quotes
#2. If the love is not madness, then the sex is not insane
Josh Stern
#3. Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness ...
Nell Stark
#4. I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed.
Geraldine Brooks
#5. When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
#6. But flaming youth in all it's madness
Keeps nothing of its heart concealed:
It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,
Are babbled out and soon revealed.
Alexander Pushkin
#7. It's just the love for her in my heart that is morphing into this madness and how can I run away from it? Sometimes I want to when I can't bear it anymore, but where will I go?
Faraaz Kazi
#8. People who detest their sanity love to tell you they are insane, authors included...and all for a few bucks. Their charlatan madness is masturbation.
W.T. Shad
#9. Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Plato
#10. It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
Jean-Yves Leloup
#11. We know that madness belongs to love,
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#14. Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?
Maggie Nelson
#16. She will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.
Nikki Rowe
#17. Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.
Anna Funder
#18. You share a toast with me:
Here's to seasonal
madness, part-time
relatives, and
substitutes for love.
Ellen Hopkins
#19. He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. I've recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can't possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.
Lauren DeStefano
#22. He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness
Seema Gupta
#23. But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.
A.S. Byatt
#24. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.
Roman Payne
#25. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
Anais Nin
#26. between love and madness lies obsession!
Andrew Oye
#27. When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#28. I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.
Pankaj Mishra
#29. Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
Mario Puzo
#31. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
#32. Love can never be organized;it's the madness encircling it that really makes it what it is. It's only when you try to play with your mind that love starts becoming a burden- because love resides in your heart;it's not to be tampered with the silly thoughts that run in your brain.
Amrit Sinha
#34. The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud
#35. Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...
Edgar Maass
#36. It is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
Oscar Wilde
#37. It was madness, it was possession, it was desire. Most of all, though, it was love.
Kate Morton
#38. My emotions have already spilled out on a canvas; I need you my king, to rescue me from the madness!
Delano Johnson
#40. As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
Gelett Burgess
#41. Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.
Sylvia Plath
#42. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
William Shakespeare
#44. Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.
Elizabeth Brundage
#45. Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.
Frances Mayes
#46. Love's madness, swinging from ecstasy to despair in one wild second.
Bernard Cornwell
#47. Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes ... we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.
Stephen Richards
#48. On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.
Thomas Love Peacock
#49. If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love ... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous ... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
Yasmina Khadra
#50. You should only fall in love with a person who enjoys your madness. Not an idiot who forces you to be normal.
Elin Peer
#51. The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.
Nick Cave
#52. If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.
Kathleen Norris
#53. I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
a new moon madness and a love of rain.
Dorothy Parker
#54. It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.
Jay Long
#55. True art
comes
from flying
with the madness
so close
you burn
your eyelashes.
Atticus Poetry
#56. You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
#57. Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
Tanith Lee
#59. What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?
Virgil
#60. While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.
Nalini Singh
#61. He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness. The
Jack London
#62. If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
Carole King
#63. He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#64. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
Fiona Mountain
#66. Let love be your constant state of being. Do not fear love, do not fear to be owned by love and its subtle madness, for why should you be fearful of that which owns you already.
Maha Khalid
#67. Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
Karen Quan
#68. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
Joseph Conrad
#69. Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.
Meera
#70. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.
Reif Larsen
#71. I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.
Gary Shteyngart
#72. You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You're the object of my everything. I'm sorry I've been stupid lately.
Crystal Woods
#73. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Walt Whitman
#74. Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.
Taryn Manning
#75. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#76. Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
Paul Negri
#77. Madness weakens the mind and disease weakens the body, but nothing destroys the spirit like the loss of a true love.
Fiona Paul
#78. In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.
Virgil
#79. It is more than love, barely less than madness. It's never close enough.
C.J. Carlyon
#80. I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.
Preity Zinta
#81. She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.
George R R Martin
#82. E was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.
Jan Kjaerstad
#83. To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#84. To continue to love someone so far beyond help, beyond redemption, was madness
Veronica Roth
#85. Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.
Bud Harris
#87. If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love.
Louise Hay
#88. Because if feels so much like falling
Into love
Into you and me
Being in love is scary
So much like falling
A frightening descent into
Beautiful madness
Yes, you and we
We're
Falling into Us
And I don't dare stop the fall
Because I need it far too much
Jasinda Wilder
#89. I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.
Carew Papritz
#90. I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I was stormed by her image and my heart could not bear it. We know so little about people. But about the people we love, we know even less.
Nicholas Shakespeare
#91. Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.
Helen Garner
#92. To be so near you without touching you is agony. Your blindness to my feelings is a daily torment, and I feel driven to the edge of madness by my love for you.
Julianne Donaldson
#94. The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings
Plato
#95. I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
William Empson
#96. How exactly can any of us stop the collective madness over there?
Zack Love
#97. So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
John Updike
#99. I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.
Holly Black
#100. If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
