Madness Quotes - Page 13

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

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

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.

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

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?