Quotes About Madness

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Vivekananda once remarked: In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Has everyone gone mad?" "Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

Mercury in retrograde? More like I'm permanently insane no matter what the fuck Mercury does

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

You've been inexpressibly lucky, " he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.