Madness Quotes

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.

She held madness like a flower.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.