Madness Quotes

• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  J. G. Ballard

  Freedom, World, Sane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Insanity, Insane

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• When love is not madness, it is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Power, Important Hamlet

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

  John Harricharan

  Two, Purpose, Success In Life

  John Harricharan (1993). “Morning Has Been All Night Coming”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Life Is

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Running, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2014

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  Isaac Newton

  Funny, People, Insanity

  "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

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• Too much sanity may be madness!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  May, Too Much, Sanity

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

  Petrarch

  Book

  "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 75, 1962.

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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Sanity is madness put to good use.

  George Santayana

  History, Use, Sanity

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.269, Indiana University Press

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• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Writing, Reason

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• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Time, Youth

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Running, Genius

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.184, Рипол Классик

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• Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Discerning

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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