Madness Quotes - Page 12

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

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

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Madness in method, that's genius

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)