Quotes About Madness In Literature

#1. 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

#2. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Roman Payne

#3. I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#4. 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

#5. To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

Philip Sington

#6. Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

Frank Pittman

#7. That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

Lee Iacocca

#8. It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.

David Foster Wallace

#9. Good Mentors are Tormentors

Robert Ogawa

#10. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

#11. Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

#12. Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

#13. The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through ... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

Jonathan Franzen