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Madness Quotes

Lines that treat losing control as sometimes necessary.

Madness moves through several registers in this set: a gentle warning that grieving too long can harm the living more than honour the dead, a photographer describing a chaotic city style achieved through cropping and blurring, and an old idea that love, if it's madness, is at least forgivable madness. For more on courage, see Courage.

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.

Quotes by R. D. Laing

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Quotes by Phillip Lim

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Quotes by Petrarch

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Quotes by Otto Weininger

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Quotes by Nigella Lawson

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose...

Quotes by Neel Mukherjee

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.

Quotes by Nancy Willard

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

Quotes by Mithun Chakraborty

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

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Quotes by Max von Sydow

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.

Quotes by Matthew James Thomas

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic...

Quotes by Matt Reeves

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

Quotes by Marston Morse

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Quotes by Mario Van Peebles

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Quotes by Marguerite Duras

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Quotes by Manolo Blahnik

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

Quotes by Mal Peet

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our...

Quotes by Luke Harding

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

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Madness quotes page cover?
It treats losing control as sometimes meaningful, spanning grief, artistic chaos, love, and the freedom found in letting go.
Why do people search for quotes about madness?
Madness quotes give language to intense emotion, whether that's grief, passion, or creative energy that resists tidy explanation.
Is there a gentle quote about grief in this set?
Yes, one line cautions against excessive mourning for those who died, calling it a quiet harm to those still living rather than true honor for the departed.
Does this page connect madness to creativity?
One entry describes a photographer chasing a chaotic, energetic city style through cropping and blurring, tying madness to artistic method.
What related pages should I explore next?
Try Courage for related boldness, or Genius for more on creative extremes.

One closing line even argues a little madness is required to cut loose and be free, tying the theme to liberation rather than loss of control. Continue with Genius or Best.