Madness Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. (Seneca)
Anger is a brief madness. View quote
Horace
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. View quote
Robin Williams
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. View quote
Seneca
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Alexander Pope
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. View quote
David Cronenberg
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. View quote
Christopher Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. (Christopher Morley)
America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. View quote
John le Carré
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. View quote
William Congreve
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. View quote
John Updike
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. View quote
Alcuin
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. View quote
Henry James
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
When love is not madness it is not love. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. View quote
William Saroyan
Sanity is madness put to good use. View quote
George Santayana
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. View quote
Emily Dickinson