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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -- Robin Williams
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. -- Andre Gide
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness breeds madness. -- Dan Brown
Madness, and then illumination. -- Orson Scott Card
Madness in method, that's genius -- Frank Herbert
Madness has no sense of humour -- Adam Foulds
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. -- Stephen King
Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness. -- Rupert Everett
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. -- William Shakespeare
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -- Charles Mackay
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy. -- Jo Brand
Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man. -- Bernard Cornwell
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.... -- Emily Dickinson
Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on. -- Philip K. Dick
Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded. -- Sixto Rodriguez
Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. -- John Hendy
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. -- Arundhati Roy
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. -- Margaret Atwood
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. -- R. D. Laing
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. -- Emily Dickinson
Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. -- Stuart Hill
In 2005, my mad half, HER was bornME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012. -- Karen Tyrrell
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources. -- Aristotle
Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances. -- Philip K. Dick
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. -- Arundhati Roy
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. -- Mark Haddon
Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew. -- Chris Galford
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. -- William S. Burroughs
Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee. -- Shirley Hazzard
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. -- Plato
Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do. -- Tanith Lee
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. -- Joseph Conrad
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. -- Michel Foucault
Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. -- Jim Carrey
If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ? -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. -- Voltaire
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. -- Michel Foucault
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. -- Karen Russell
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. -- R. Scott Bakker
Madness is surprisingly freeing. -- Mira Grant
Madness is no madness when shared. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Madness is the acme of intelligence. -- Naguib Mahfouz
There is always some madness in love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -- Allen Ginsberg
When love is not madness, it is not love. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. -- Charles Bukowski
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. -- Aristotle
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. -- Ambrose Bierce
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human. -- Plato
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. -- Charles Baudelaire
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. -- Aristotle
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. -- Thomas Fuller
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. -- Waylon Jennings
The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness! -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind. -- Steven Moffat
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. -- Thomas Sankara
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. -- John Forbes Nash
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. -- Richard Davenport-Hines
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. -- Voltaire
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. -- Isaac Newton
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. -- Thomas a Kempis
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. -- Randy Savage
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. -- Marilyn Monroe
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss -- Albert Camus
Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. -- Shannon L. Alder
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. -- Matt Damon
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. -- Hermann Broch
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. -- Kevin James Breaux
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. -- Kevin James Breaux
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. -- Don DeLillo
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -- Xenophon
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. -- Aleister Crowley
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. -- Henry Miller
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. -- R. D. Laing
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. -- Naomi Wolf
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. -- Michel Foucault
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
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. -- Geraldine Brooks
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. -- David Cronenberg
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. -- Albrecht Durer
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. -- Edgar Lee Masters
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Petrarch
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. -- Graham Greene
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. -- Erich Maria Remarque
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. -- Anne Lamott
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. -- Max von Sydow
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. -- Robin Williams
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. -- Michael Ignatieff
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Too much sanity may be madness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Anger is temporary madness. -- Rajneesh
Anger is short-lived madness. -- Horace
Worse than madness. Sanity. -- William Golding
Anger is momentary madness. -- Horace
Anger is brief madness -- Horace
My love's a noble madness. -- John Dryden
Anger is a short madness. -- Horace
The madness is runnin' wild! -- Randy Savage
Love is merely a madness. -- William Shakespeare
Anger is a momentary madness. -- Horace
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. -- John Milton
Eccentricty had flowered into madness. -- Laurie R. King
Idealism has devolved into madness. -- Ralph Peters
Collective madness is called sanity .. -- Paulo Coelho
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Love is . . . a madness most discreet -- William Shakespeare

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