998 Quotes About Madness

A genius flirts with madness.

If you want to save the misfit, the gambler, the prostitute, the drug addict, leave them alone.

Poor devil! None of us can have the remotest idea of the agony it is to be despised and rejected of men. A cancer in the soul and then madness. The feeling of there being a curtain, more invisible than gauze, stronger than iron, between one’s self and one’s fellow man. To cry out of the abyss and to know that there will be no answer, that one is buried alive.

In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.