Top 100 Quotes About Madness
#1. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses
C. G. Jung
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Douglas Rushkoff
#3. Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
Philip K. Dick
#4. There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.
Nancy Young
#5. It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self - hate to self - trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.
Jean Vanier
#6. I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Francoise Sagan
#7. It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
Warren Buffett
#8. For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. The flock mirror the madness of their liege.
Poppet
#10. Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
Max Von Sydow
#12. Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
Jonathan Kellerman
#13. There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.
Khloe Kardashian
#14. Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
Frieda Lawrence
#15. And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.
Cassandra Clare
#16. There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.
Pras Michel
#18. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.
Blaise Pascal
#19. An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.
George Santayana
#20. Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
Norman Cousins
#22. Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
Randy Savage
#23. I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
Edgar Allan Poe
#24. Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.
Joan Didion
#25. You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
Thomas Sankara
#26. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.
George R R Martin
#27. Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?
Fernando Pessoa
#28. Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would feel for a child one day), merely the false grandeur of madness.
Kate Atkinson
#29. If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
Voltaire
#30. 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
#31. Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#32. Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.
Geoffrey Wood
#33. Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
Matthew James Thomas
#34. Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
Randy Savage
#35. A man needs a little madness, or else ... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#36. If this is madness," I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, "madness is something very beautiful.
Mina Loy
#37. Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Herman Melville
#38. Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Mike Wilson
#39. Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.
Robert Graves
#40. It's useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.
The Invisible Committee
#41. Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.
Peter Geye
#42. Insane people are only sane people who give in to the madness in the world.
Cameron Jace
#43. I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.
Lorna Sage
#44. The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness.
Hanif Kureishi
#45. The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madness," I explain.
"What's the first one?"
"Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."
He laughs and sneaks another look at me.
Michael Robotham
#46. No life is complete without a touch of madness.
Paulo Coelho
#47. I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#48. But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.
Russell Hoban
#50. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.
Molly Haskell
#51. Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.
Grant Morrison
#52. Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It's not made of metal, really. It's made of time. How much is one's time worth? If one can convince enough people that one's time is an invaluable resource, then one has lots and lots of money. That's why one can spend time - only one can never get a refund.
Jim Butcher
#53. When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
Kevin James Breaux
#54. Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford
#55. Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
#56. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#57. I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash
#58. The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
Mick Jagger
#59. But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.
Daphne Du Maurier
#60. My son, from whence this madness, this neglect
Of my commands, and those whom I protect?
Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind
Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.
Virgil
#61. It was disconcerting when she asked questions that no one answered. That way lay madness.
K.F. Breene
#62. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
#64. Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
Aristotle.
#65. I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There
Samuel R. Delany
#66. Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Walter Scott
#69. And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?
Edgar Allan Poe
#70. The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman ... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.
Robert Pattinson
#71. With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness ... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
Anais Nin
#72. No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable
Kay Redfield Jamison
#73. In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Leo Rosten
#74. Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under
Ville Valo
#75. What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
Emile M. Cioran
#76. Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.
Ben Jonson
#78. I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
Giacomo Casanova
#79. 'Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Christopher Buckley
#81. With a lover, a wife, when you find the worst - be it infidelity or lack of love, madness or the suicidal spark - you are almost relieved. Life is as I thought it was; shall we now celebrate this disappointment?
Julian Barnes
#82. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
Gabriela Mistral
#83. Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono
#84. And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
Joyce Carol Oates
#86. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse
#87. All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
L.M. Montgomery
#88. Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
Anais Nin
#89. This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
Rene Daumal
#90. It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.
Nick Alexander
#91. Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there ...
Timo Tjahjanto
#92. I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish, boredom, madness, anger, depression, apathy, negativity, sex, violence & a little chunk of chaos.
Emily H. Sturgill
#93. Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.
Nora Roberts
#94. What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
Theodore Roethke
#95. It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.
Dave Eggers
#96. There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
Tom Felton
#97. Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
Kate Millett
#98. Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He
Brian McClellan
#99. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#100. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
Plato
