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Quotes About Madness

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Whatever else it impressed on the culture, Huxley's experience left no doubt in his mind or Osmond's that the 'model psychosis' didn't begin to describe the mind on mescaline. 'It will give that elixir a bad name if it continues to be associated, in the public mind, with schizophrenia symptoms, Huxley wrote to Osmond in 1955. 'People will think they are going mad, when in fact they are beginning, when they take it, to go sane.
~ Michael Pollan
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
~ Georg Brandes
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
~ Creed Bratton
It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
~ Evalyn Walsh McLean
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
What an annoying mad thing love is!
~ Emanuel Schikaneder
I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.
~ Ladyhawke
A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.
~ Paulo Coelho
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?
~ Robert Goolrick
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.
~ Gillian Anderson
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'
~ H. G. Wells
His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
~ Holly Black
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
~ Jeff Feuerzeig
Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.
~ John Donne
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.
~ John Dryden
My love's a noble madness.
~ John Dryden
I love 'Dr Strangelove.
~ Jon M. Chu
There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
~ Lord Byron
Everyone's crazy except you and me.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
~ Mason Cooley
I love it when you're demented like this.
~ Melina Marchetta
An Australian fly will try to suck the moisture off your eyeball. He will, if not constantly turned back, go into parts of your ears that a Q-tip can only dream about. He will happily die for the glory of taking a tiny dump on your tongue. Get thirty or forty of them dancing around you in the same way and madness will shortly follow. And
~ Bill Bryson