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Madness Quotes

"There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness"
Herman Melville
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad"
Aldous Huxley
"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
Michel de Montaigne
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence"
Edgar Allan Poe
"A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so."
Michel de Montaigne
"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings"
Plato
"A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King"
Emily Dickinson
"There is a pleasure in being mad that only the madman knows."
Alain de Botton
"Without madness, there is no humanity."
Fernando Pessoa
"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate."
Steven Pressfield
"Madness, in its wild state, howled there"
Michel Foucault
"Be with me always take any form drive me mad only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you"
Emily Bronte
"There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men "
Herman Melville
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses"
George Santayana
"Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes"
T. S. Eliot
"Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse."
Ray Bradbury
"I'm a very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time"
Freddie Mercury
"Anger is a brief madness; govern your mind, for unless it obeys it commands"
Horace
"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane"
Jimmy Buffett
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