Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. Votes: 5
Andre GideThere is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Votes: 4
Friedrich NietzscheMadness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. Votes: 3
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsMadness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. Votes: 3
Mark HaddonMadness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew. Votes: 3
Chris GalfordMadness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. Votes: 3
William S. BurroughsMadness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee. Votes: 3
Shirley HazzardMadness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. Votes: 3
Jim CarreyIf every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ? Votes: 3
Stanley Victor PaskavichMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. Votes: 3
VoltaireTo indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. Votes: 3
R. Scott BakkerErections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. Votes: 2
Charles BukowskiYou cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. Votes: 2
Thomas SankaraMadness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. Votes: 2
Richard Davenport-HinesA man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. Votes: 2
Thomas a KempisHulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. Votes: 2
Randy SavageMadness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss Votes: 2
Albert CamusMadness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. Votes: 2
Shannon L. AlderScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Votes: 2
Edgar Allan PoeI'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. Votes: 2
Matt DamonThe world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. Votes: 2
Hermann BrochBizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsRum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceHospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. Votes: 0
Francis AtterburyWhat more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains. Votes: 0
Sir John DaviesWhen one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. Votes: 0
S. N. GoenkaLife, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. Votes: 0
Zohra SehgalWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeExplore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there ... Votes: 0
Timo TjahjantoLove is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. Votes: 0
Louis de BernieresI am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleWithout madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaMy backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida. Votes: 0
Karen RussellThere's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty. Votes: 0
Dmitry GlukhovskyOrators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftSome are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. Votes: 0
Emilie AutumnThe sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsNo Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness Votes: 0
Viktor KorchnoiDemocritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroA touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. Votes: 0
Marguerite YourcenarI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Votes: 0
Allen GinsbergDear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. Votes: 0
G. Willow WilsonAnger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Votes: 0
G. M. TrevelyanThe great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteI have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. Votes: 0
Giacomo Casanova...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness. Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteLove is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness. Votes: 0
Florence WelchHe in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. Votes: 0
Mikhail LermontovThe danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. Votes: 0
Terence McKennaThe courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyA little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheFacts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonCulture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity." Votes: 0
Milan KunderaGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. Votes: 0
John DrydenThey are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. Votes: 0
William HazlittSanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... Votes: 0
Anthony QuinnSomewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyBut to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. Votes: 0
Hubert Selby Jr.If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there... Votes: 0
Armistead MaupinBut to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. Votes: 0
Hubert Selby, Jr.Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... Votes: 0
Anton Szandor LaVeyIt is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettAnd to be wroth with one we love"Doth work like madness in the brain. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePeople think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness. Votes: 0
Scott LachanceCulture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaCreation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0
Steve JobsThe process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. Votes: 0
Joanne HarrisThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. Votes: 0
Socrateslonging to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertFashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time. Votes: 0
Carolina HerreraLay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareHe regarded himself as an accomplished writer â a clear sign of madness in anyone. Votes: 0
Paul TherouxI have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. Votes: 0
H. P. LovecraftEven if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness - Votes: 0
Guillermo del ToroThe madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies. Votes: 0
Kit HaringtonIt is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. Votes: 0
Leonid BrezhnevWhy is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does? Votes: 0
Sharon Kay PenmanIf there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithTogether, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenLaughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. Votes: 0
Matt Haiggardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. Votes: 0
May SartonI loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved Votes: 0
Seema GuptaSometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleWe Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Votes: 0
William WordsworthI think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness. Votes: 0
Wayne CoyneMaybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. Votes: 0
Susanna KaysenWhen your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonI've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world. Votes: 0
Stephanie EricssonEvery time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessMaybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesA person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Votes: 0
Nikos KazantzakisSin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. Votes: 0
Thomas BrooksLet the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Votes: 0
Clive BarkerHe left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness Votes: 0
Seema GuptaSometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. Votes: 0
Will SelfIt's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalWhat is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. Votes: 0
Christopher FryPut all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertWe are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. Votes: 0
Eckhart TollePeople say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy. Votes: 0
Molly LoobyLet us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. Votes: 0
Mario PuzoI've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. Votes: 0
Tom VerlaineTurn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light. Votes: 0
Jennifer DonnellyWe know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try. Votes: 0
Carole KingSong, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. Votes: 0
Louise BoganLife is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. Votes: 0
Vernor VingeI give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. Votes: 0
Dorothy Parker[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonI'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. Votes: 0
Chris LoweIn order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness. Votes: 0
Joe RoganMiserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. Votes: 0
George EliotEnvying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. Votes: 0
Andre GideThe only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness. Votes: 0
Mick JaggerOh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotAmerica has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. Votes: 0
John le CarreDown that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. Votes: 0
Larry WallThe world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. Votes: 0
Edward Robb EllisAll cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyIt's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees. Votes: 0
Sarah McLachlanEmotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. Votes: 0
John SterlingBut I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9, Votes: 0
Rafael SabatiniDance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air. Votes: 0
Mithun ChakrabortyA force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlylePoetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. Votes: 0
AristotleThe woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it Votes: 0
Brad PittIt was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it. Votes: 0
Edna O'BrienThere is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness. Votes: 0
Keegan-Michael KeyFor you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. Votes: 0
TerenceToo much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesOf course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation. Votes: 0
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