Madness Quotes - Page 4

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Anger is a short madness.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Madness breeds madness.

Love is merely a madness.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.