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Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved - or not quite evolved enough - to bear the awful burden of its own existence.
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself
Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
My madness is my love towards mankind.
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away ... forever.
The Joker
Like madness is the glory of this life.
Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. It shows up without calling and sits in your kitchen ashing in your plant. You ask how long it plans to stay; it shrugs its shoulders, gets up, and starts digging through the fridge.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
sources.
An intense life needs a touch of madness.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.
In my madness I see your face in mine.
I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you cry, and so does a doorknob.
Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.
Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.
Madness exist in the mind.
At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ...
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions, and to reason correctly from them?
For to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
This was madness; this was delirium.
What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
Madness. That's what it was. And I could no longer contain it.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye ...
Like madness is the glory of life.
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
All passion is madness.
Madness comes to us all. Even you.
What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
My love's a noble madness.
Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
Insanity, thy name is woman
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.
If this was madness it was an entirely new kind of madness, as yet undocumented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. She had nerdophrenia. She was dorkotic.
It's a madness so discreet that it can walk the streets and be applauded in some circles, but it is madness nonetheless.
Let the madness begin.
Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
Madness in method, that's genius
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, Hey, is there room in your head for one more?
There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Madness is surprisingly freeing.
Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Madness, and then illumination.
Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.
Extremes of feeling are allied to madness;
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
Madness is depressing illusion.
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
you say you often feel this madness. what do you do when it comes upon you?
I write poetry.
is poetry madness?
non-poetry is madness.
what is madness?
madness is ugliness.
what is ugly?
to each man, something different.
You call it madness
I call it LOVE
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
There is madness in the heart of a man.
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS
There is madness in the mind.
The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
There is madness in every single being, is there not?
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness
You can't have a masterpiece without madness,
All extreme feelings are allied with madness.
You call it madness, but I call it love.
Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness ...
The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My
a synonym for 'insane' is 'bananas
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
I'm a demoniac; I am madness maddened
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.