Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
Michel Foucault
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
EURIPIDES
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
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.
R. D. Laing
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
Emily Dickinson
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
Voltaire
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca
So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
Emil Cioran
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 is usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
Robert Burton