Madness Quotes

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

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

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

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

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

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

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

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

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

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary 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.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Success can create more madness than happiness.