Quotes About Madness Of Love

#1. The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings

Plato

#2. The madness of love is ever delightful.

Publilius Syrus

#3. The madness of love can always be suspended
to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

Mason Cooley

#4. The madness of love is a great motivator of new ideas.

Jeffrey Perren

#5. 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

#6. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Walt Whitman

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Joseph Conrad

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Love is the sweetest madness of life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Nora Ephron

#16. I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
a new moon madness and a love of rain.

Dorothy Parker

#17. 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

#18. How exactly can any of us stop the collective madness over there?

Zack Love

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Madness weakens the mind and disease weakens the body, but nothing destroys the spirit like the loss of a true love.

Fiona Paul

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed.

Geraldine Brooks

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness

Seema Gupta

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#40. We know that madness belongs to love,
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness ...

Nell Stark

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#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. Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.

Elizabeth Brundage

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. My emotions have already spilled out on a canvas; I need you my king, to rescue me from the madness!

Delano Johnson

#52. It was madness, it was possession, it was desire. Most of all, though, it was love.

Kate Morton

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Mario Puzo

#56. 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

#57. I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.

Keeley Hawes

#58. I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Jason Reeves

#59. You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

Anais Nin

#60. Forcing some one to love you is not love that's called madness, Love is that feeling where force doesn't work, only happiness of the loved ones matter.

Debolina Bhawal

#61. Yes.' Cam paused. 'The Rom would say you were a man who grieved too much. You trapped your
beloved's soul in the in-between.'
'Either that, or I went mad.'
'Love is a form of madness, isn't it?' Cam asked prosaically.

Lisa Kleypas

#62. Needing someone to love me and want me has always driven me to the brink of madness.

Kathryn Perez

#63. I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.

Jon Ronson

#64. It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

H.G.Wells

#65. As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

#66. I'm ready to commit to her at any time. But for god's sake, I'm not even sure she's heterosexual. It'd be madness to put a lesbian in charge of my ejaculatory functions.

Neal Stephenson

#67. This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

Charlotte Eriksson

#68. Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

William Faulkner

#69. I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

Margaret Cho

#70. Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

Alfred De Vigny

#71. We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

Bryant McGill

#72. No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love]
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean

Hozier

#73. There was nothing normal or typical about our love. We should've been one hot mess of madness for all that we'd suffered, but just as a flower grows from the sky's tears, our love grew from pain. It blossomed in darkness and thrived with time.

Keri Lake

#74. Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.

Steven Saylor

#75. To be loved to madness
such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

Thomas Hardy

#76. Dead. things, dead things ... " I said. "Come no closer. Talking of madness and love, in this reeking place! And that old monster, Magnus, locking them up in his dungeon. How did he love them, his captives? The way boys love butterflies when they rip off their wings!

Anne Rice

#77. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)

Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."

(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,

It is better to remain an ignorant one.)

Jalaluddin Rumi

#78. There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

Lord Byron

#79. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

#80. Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.

A Meredith Walters

#81. You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

Simon Van Booy

#82. All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#83. If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.

Paulo Coelho

#84. When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way.

Gen Urobuchi

#85. When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.

Victor Hugo

#86. You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.

S.w.collins

#87. Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

M.F. Moonzajer

#88. Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.

Michael Faudet

#89. After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Albert Camus

#90. Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

Honore De Balzac

#91. The love of a good woman can save a man" I remember Gabriel saying. "Or it can drive him to fits of unspeakable madness.

Molly Harper

#92. O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet
not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you
to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

Georgette Heyer

#93. She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.

Shakieb Orgunwall

#94. I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our one shared madness, our one shared burden. All creatures are driven against sense by it, and even the lowest ant will die madly for her queen.

B. Justin Shier

#95. The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

C.S. Lewis

#96. The Agora had fallen, too.
Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admirable calm considering, Seriously, love, I think we've got this.

Erin Kellison

#97. The very first few days when you actually start having symptoms of falling for someone special, are the days of heavenly bliss and unreasonable madness.

Abhijit Naskar

#98. Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.

Thornton Wilder

#99. The harder she fights the fall, the faster she tumbles out of reason and into love's madness.

Amy Miles

#100. Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams.

Jessica Kristie