Madness Quotes
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. He becomes a perjurer, all his thoughts and emotions being directed with reference, not to an accurate and just appraisal of the real world but rather to the safety and exaltation of his loved one, and the madness with which he pursues her, transmogrifying his attention, blinds him like a victim.
Alexander Theroux
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
John Sterling
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire, oh, no, love is not that! It is goodness and honour and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare
