Quotes on Madness

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Author: Frank Auerbach

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

Author: J. Ballard

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Author: Hermann Broch

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Author: Emile Cioran

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Author: Emile Cioran

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Author: John Dryden

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Author: Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Author: Andre Gide

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Author: Allen Ginsberg

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

Author: Allen Ginsberg

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Author: John Glover

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

Author: David Icke

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

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Author: Henry Miller

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Author: John Russell

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Author: George Santayana

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Author: Seneca

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Author: Jonathan Swift

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Author: Robin Williams