998 Quotes About Madness

I am full of madness, i can't hide my fireI burn for the things i love, my soul will never retire.

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

The thing about poetsis we need heartacheand madness and losslike the air we breathe - for without the chaos,words are just tinyletters without a soul.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

The Culture, according to Emerson, does not die a dignified death. It’s been stricken by madness, bombarded by strange forces, many of its own making, now out of its control, and it’s started to cannibalize itself.

Pure madness, the Culture more animal than man now, as if stricken by rabies.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

130. We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.

Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?