(675 quotes found)
“How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet!”
Robert Browning
“O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
William Shakespeare
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide”
John Dryden
“I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.”
Vincent van Gogh
“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?”
William Saroyan
“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes”
Andre Gide
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg
“Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring.”
Marilyn Monroe
