Quotes on Madness

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

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

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

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

Sanity is madness put to good use.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit