Madness Quotes

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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.
Naomi Wolf

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form.

Madness hath imaginary bliss, and most men have no more.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Madness is an excited mind, indulging in the dreams of imagination, until the heated fancy makes chimeras appear real.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
E.M. CIORAN

Anger is a brief madness.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.







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