#Madness Quotes

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”

“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”

“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!”

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

“He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.”

“Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”

“Love is . . . a madness most discreet”

“...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

“Love is merely a madness.”

“Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.”

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

“Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

“For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

“I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.”

“It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.”

“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.”

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

“We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.”

“Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

“I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?”

“I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.”

“Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.”

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“My wits begin to turn.”

“Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.”

“Like madness, is the glory of this life.”

“The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.”

“I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.”

“At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.”

“Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.”

“A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsoughtUpon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.”

“Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

“Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.”

“If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”

“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”

“What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.”

“A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.”

“All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.”