Madness Quotes - Page 2

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Madness, and then illumination.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

To expect an impossibility is madness.

You just have to trust your own madness.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.