Madness Quotes


Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. Michel Foucault Madness 124
This place has only three exits sir Madness and Death. Rene Daumal Madness 119
Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe Madness 104
Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana Madness 104
And never never dear madam put Wednesday simply as the date That way madness lies Lewis Carroll Madness 101
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- Emily Dickinson Madness 101
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! J. G. Ballard Madness 98
Worse than madness. Sanity. William Golding Madness 98
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! George Bernard Shaw Madness 97
All men are mad in some way or another and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen so deal with Gods madmen too the rest of the world. Bram Stoker Madness 96
...My point is I went crazy. When I saw what a black awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot I admit it Why cant you Alan Moore Madness 92
Dearest Cecilia Youd be forgiven for thinking me mad the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence Cee and I dont think I can blame the heat. Ian McEwan Madness 87
Its salt. Why dont you sprinkle some on me honey Arent I just good enough to eat Grant Morrison Madness 87
Sanity is a madness put to good uses. George Santayana Madness 87
precious laughing time is wasted because I have to put up with Satans stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else leave us alone already. A Gentlemen Madness 84
In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients. Thomas Szasz Madness 82
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? Isadora Duncan Madness 79
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 Madness 71
Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing. Ira N. Barin Madness 69
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others genius bordering on madness Erich Segal Madness 69
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Henry Miller Madness 69
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. Piero Scaruffi Madness 68
Azhrarn the Beautiful said Chuz lovingly it is your beautiful madness I have come to see. Tanith Lee Madness 67
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Edward Dahlberg Madness 66
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life the basis of morality or a sort of madness Alain de Botton Madness 63
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad he annouced. Douglas Adams Madness 59
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Aristotle Madness 59
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. Ezra Pound Madness 58
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. Thomas Szasz Madness 57
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. Charles Baudelaire Madness 55
Why should I laugh asked the old man. Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go young man follow your dream and if you do not find the happiness that you seek at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it. Andrew Lang Madness 55
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Laing Madness 54
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. Tom Stoppard Madness 53
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. William Shakespeare Madness 52
All great art has madness and quite a lot of bad art has it too. William Saroyan Madness 51
Youre all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. Youll never crack the code thats inside my head. Youll never get into my castle. Youll never even get past the gate. Brent Runyon Madness 51
A great many men are mad and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves Agatha Christie Madness 51
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom the madness of an utterly idle man. G.K. Chesterton Madness 50
No idea with who has no idea Nomoto Madness 48
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle Madness 44
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. Salvador Dali Madness 43
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health though wheres his basis for comparing Thomas Pynchon Madness 43
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely youll see that theyre all mad in different and interesting ways and are merely struggling to hide it. Robert Anton Wilson Madness 43
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed you should try not to hear them. Philip K. Dick Madness 43
Bedlam an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. Jon Ronson Madness 42
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. Herman Melville Madness 41
defines a madman as a man who preferred to become madin the socially accepted sense of the word rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. Antonin Artaud Madness 41
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. Hermann Broch Madness 41
Le fou ce ne sera plus lexil celui quon repousse dans les marges de nos villes mais celui quon rend tranger nbsp lui mme en le culpabilisant dtre celui quil est. Michel Foucault Madness 41
Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too excitingtoo literary too interesting in its connotations to convey the boredom the slowness the dreariness the dampness of depression. Elizabeth Wurtzel Madness 40

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