Madness Quotes - Page 5

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

You call it madness, but I call it love.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Too much sanity may be madness!

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness