Madness Quotes

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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

When love is not madness, it is not love.

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

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

You call it madness, but I call it love.

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

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

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

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

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.