Quotes About Madness

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association of America has succumbed.

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.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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.

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

enamorándome con pasión de [...] Utilizo ese término después de haberlo considerado: ningún otro expresaba la devoción ciega, irracional y duradera que le mostraba; no hay palabras menos vívidas para definir aquella locura.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.