Madness Quotes
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If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.
Ned Kelly
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
George Bernard Shaw
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If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
Thomas Nagel
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Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Like madness, is the glory of this life.
William Shakespeare
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What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Michel Foucault
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal
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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Moon Unit Zappa
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Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
Michael Gruber
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.
Nick Flynn
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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
Erich Segal
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Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
Zoë Heller
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
Albert Camus
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A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
Stephen Spender
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
Virginia Woolf
