Best Madness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”

Way Common Creative Madness Common Sense Destructive

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.”

Men Ends Use Pride Madness Dancing Dance Vanity Profitable Pious Depraved Inbreds Necessary Use

Author:William Prynne

“In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.”

Moments Life Is Joy Answers Grief Solitude Ultimate Madness Missions Excitement Midst Sole Unimaginable

Author:Kedar Joshi

“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.”

“You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.”

Voice Sweet Expectations Madness Response Intuition Bones Familiar Reasonable Conventions Inner Voice

Author:Tama J. Kieves

“[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.”

Mind Sometimes Wealth Fire Subjects Madness Calm Passionate Intellect Ran Lightning Threatening Dazzling Volcanoes

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.”

Genius Madness Insanity Spices Genius And Madness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.”

May Important Life Is Wish Sex Serious Madness Be You Mirth Solemnity Neckties

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.”

Knows Men God Know How Crazy Creating Madness Mad Quitting Insane Insanity Dozen Renaissance Crazy People Mad Men Maggots Creating New Things

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”

Men Giving Littles Soul Turns Madness Wine Spots Vanity Idiot Indifference Bitterness Display Resentment Assassins Deformity

Book:The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

Source: The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”

Peace Madness Sheep Negotiation Craziness Fidgeting

Author:Thomas Fuller

“It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.”

Dies Poverty Rich Madness

Author:Juvenal

“O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.”

Thinking Made Use Choices Strong Support Drink Madness Wine Chiefs Compare Champion Strongest Forbidden Liquid Brooks Temperance

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems

“God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.”

Men Humans Sometimes Reason Degrees Highest Capable Madness Mad Credit Wicked Wickedness Human Reason

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.”

Thinking Needs Littles Art Bits Little Bit Art Is Madness Temperament Larger Than Life

Author:Laurence Olivier

“And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.”

Way Kind Joy Born Wonder Novel Written Ignorance Sorrow Madness Psychotic

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.”

Sometimes Easier Reflection Madness Self Reflection

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius”

Genius Madness

Author:Salvador Dali

“Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.”

Madness Impulse Far Away Saying Yes

Author:Jim Carrey

“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

“Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.”

Mind May Body Cases Humour Fit Madness Illness Temporary Sanity Madness And Sanity

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.”

People May Facts Used Term Creative Divine Anxiety Madness Paid Greek Insecurity Sensitivity Distinguished Creative People High Prices

Author:Rollo May

“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”

Grace Conditions Stage Divine Anxiety Madness Sacred Sufficient Fright Insufficient Ailments Stage Fright Jesuit Epilepsy

Author:Charles Rosen

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

Madness Woe Gorges Invert

Author:Ishmael

“In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.”

Source: CONAN THE BARBARIAN SERIES – Complete Collection (Fantasy & Action-Adventure Classics): Pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery - 20 books about the Cimmerian Barbarian, Thief, Pirate and Eventual King of Aquilonia During the pre-Ice Age, Hyborian Age, Featuring a Poem and an Essay

“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”

Mother House Wife Crazy Sitting Madness Driving Sitting Around Drive Me Crazy Wives And Mothers

Author:Patsy Cline

“No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.”