Madness Quotes

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

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.