Madness Quotes - page 3

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. View quote
Hermann Broch
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? View quote
Jon Ronson
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try. View quote
Carole King
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. View quote
John Adams
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. View quote
John Forbes Nash
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. (John Forbes Nash)
It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness. View quote
Pierre Bosquet
Collective madness is called sanity .. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. View quote
Xenophon
Conspiracy theory was tremendously popular, always and forever. People wanted such catastrophes to mean something more than mere individual madness, and so the hunt was on. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. View quote
Marguerite Yourcenar
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain. View quote
Alexander Blok
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius, in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet's Madness.) (Stephen Jay Gould)
Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied. View quote
Norman Mailer
...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit... View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? View quote
Elie Wiesel