madness quotes

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Robin Williams

“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”

— Jonathan Swift

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ”

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ”

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

“Anger is a short madness. ”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.”

— George Harrison

“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

“Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

— Samuel Beckett