Madness Quotes

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

~ Tom Cheetham

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

~ Ted Cruz

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

~ Aristotle

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

~ Petrarch

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

~ Will Self

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

~ Robin Williams

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

~ Geraldine Brooks

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

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

~ Anacharsis

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

~ Xenophon

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

~ Manolo Blahnik

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

~ Bono

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

~ Ishmael Beah

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

~ Christopher Morley

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

~ Robin Williams

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

~ Jean Cocteau

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

~ Thomas Fuller

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

Anger is a short madness.

~ Horace

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

~ J. G. Ballard

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

~ Narendra Modi