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Madness Quotes

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

Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

"Song: 'The Westerner' ('The Drug in Me Is You')". 2011.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Song: Inner City Blues, Album: Cold Fact, 1970

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.33, e-artnow

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

"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Arabian Nights and Days”, p.135, Anchor

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

"Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession" by René J. Muller, (p. 62), 2013.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1451, Knopf Books for Young Readers

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.383

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”