Quotes about Madness

"I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?"
-William Saroyan

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
-Aristotle

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
-Aristotle

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
-Andre Gide

"I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."
-William Shakespeare

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
-Seneca

"There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness."
-Seneca

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"
-J. G. Ballard

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
-Emily Dickinson

"There will be some confusion. It could be April Madness."
-David Zion

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
-Henrik Tikkanen

"RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Afflicted by love's madness all are blind."
-Sextus Propertius

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
-Ted Morgan

"Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
-Francesco Petrarch

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
-Xenophon

"St. Francis has a great program. It's one of those games where I hope we can just hang around as long as we can and get a few breaks. You never know - it's March Madness."
-Todd Hursey

"A breath of wind from the wings of madness."
-Charles Baudelaire

"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness."
-Terence

"This madness has reached us, and we have to deal with it."
-Marwan Muasher

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

"I think there is some sense by the court that it's time to stop the madness."
-Nathaniel Persily