Madness And Insanity Quotes
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
— Rudyard Kipling
There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
— Charles Baudelaire
A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!
— Stephen Richards
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
— Eckhart Tolle
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.
— Cassandra Kemper
While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Unlike most I don't fear prison, never have, never will. Obviously I don't want it, I hate it, but it's the hate that drives me on to survive.
— Stephen Richards
Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.
— Stephen Richards
Evil is there, out there and in your faces! You have two choices, either run or fight! To run is to die a coward! To fight is to win!
— Stephen Richards
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
— Penelope Fitzgerald
Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.
— Grant Morrison
First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
— J.K. Rowling
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Madness is no madness when shared.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.
— Michael Faudet
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
— Rohinton Mistry
Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!
— Stephen Richards
It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.
— Matthew Hunt
Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.
— Kathryn Schulz
... insanity is never reasonable.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.
— Auliq Ice
A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' Doc,' I said, ' ... you're the problem!
— Stephen Richards
Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.
— Munia Khan
Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.
— Jeanette Winterson
What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?
— Kate Scelsa
There is madness in every single being, is there not?
— Delia Winters
(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am. — William Shakespeare
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am. — William Shakespeare
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my madness I see your face in mine.
— David Bowie
I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.
— Elton John
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
— Seneca The Younger
Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
— Alison Goodman
Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.
— Chris Galford
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
— Bruce Robinson
Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
— Brom
His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.
— Jane Harper
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
— Nathanael Emmons
Fuck the rabbit, eat it and go after a lion.
— Stephen Richards
How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?
— Dee Remy
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified. — N.K. Jemisin
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified. — N.K. Jemisin
It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.
— Lance Conrad
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?
— Stephen Richards
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
— Susanna Clarke
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
— Denis Diderot
Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.
— Stephen King
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
— Criss Jami
(Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street — Edward P. Jones
From Butterfly on F street — Edward P. Jones
He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.
— Mike Judge
I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.
— Gary Shteyngart
Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
— A Meredith Walters
It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.
— Terry Pratchett
Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.
— Craig Ferguson
So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.
— Ray Bradbury
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
— Akira Kurosawa
He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud ... well he did drink a bottle of bleach!
— Stephen Richards
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
— Philip K. Dick