Quotes about Madness

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. — André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why the — William Shakespeare, As You Like It
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabb — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! — Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?""Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple.""But...you did something nice. Why? — Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all ot — Philip K. Dick
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a parti — Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at — Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all s — James Connolly
As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds — Hermann Bahr
It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be. — Knight of the woeful countenance
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rathe — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive wi — Tim Willocks, The Religion
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of — Michel de Montaigne
Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen — George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones