Top 165 Madness Quotes

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Fashion week is very tiring, so I take a little nap backstage before the hair and make-up madness starts.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

When you’re in a different place every day, there’s this kind of madness that sets in.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I know some people will roll their eyes at this, but it’s not like you can totally put academics on pause during March Madness (well, maybe at some schools). At Stanford, you had to handle your business.

My dad’s method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

I just think that playing in a championship game and playing in every game in March Madness, that’s just more time for critics to watch you and more time for them to nitpick at what you don’t do well or what they feel you don’t do well.

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It’s terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.

I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.

I’m not sure there’s a method to my madness.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

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.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I’m not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

I’m interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

This is madness – when a single footballer is more expensive than building a hospital or school, the transfer market has lost its marbles.

Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind.

I play a simple, fun-loving girl who adds madness to ‘Mubarakan.’

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

In Jenny Offill’s remarkable first novel, ‘Last Things,’ 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

I love to watch people not care too much about the choreography, or if they sing perfectly, or if the right label people are there to watch them. It’s just about letting go and being crazy and engaging people in dance and madness – being a human instead of a doll.

March Madness gave me both a lasting confidence and a lifelong bond with both my teammates and opponents.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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 saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’ felt like the beginning.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there’s still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I’m not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn’t it?

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther – the machine-gun is covering the square.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Trying to write music that’s sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it’s such a long stretch of time.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Nothing like stopping at Balthazar in between NYFW madness. Their shrimp cocktail is delicious and healthy.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can’t compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it’s the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

When Pep played this incredibly attractive and multifaceted football in Barcelona, a lot was written and said about Barca’s playing with the ball. But the real madness was counter-pressing. Most opponents never had the ball for longer than five seconds before they got smashed by this machine.

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.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and ‘March Madness’ are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

We can all look on the Internet and go, ‘He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,’ you know. And that way, madness lies.

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

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it’s partly due to Bobby Fischer – his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren’t interesting.

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don’t really craft stories that much. I genuinely don’t know where these people come from, and I’ve often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, ‘Several Shades of Why’ and ‘Heavy Blanket,’ J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that ’80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a ‘live and let live’ spirit and a connection with good.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.