Madness Quotes - Page 5

• Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Discerning

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

  Freddie Mercury

  Emotional, Thinking, Years

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• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Literature, Collectives

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press

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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Science, Order

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5

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• Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Reality, Tvs

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• Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Political, Politics

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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• A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drinking, Bottles, Literature

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• [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press

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• Anger is a short madness.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Anger

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

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• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Depression, Men, Mad

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For to define true madness,
  What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Mad, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 93

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• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Intellect, Ifs

  "Public and Private Occasions".

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• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  Kevin Spacey

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Believe, Purpose, Aim Of Life

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Sep 30, 2015

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• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Life Is

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• One is very crazy when in love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Crazy, Godly

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Time, Youth

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

  Petrarch

  Book

  "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 75, 1962.

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