998 Quotes About Madness

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

I think madness had hidden there, in that extreme but also tiny ambition, like swallowing a centipede tossed in the salad.

& he watches each musclevolt into place. the surgeon became the surgeon afteryears of openingbooks & making senseof their contents

Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness.

...The lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

I know it's crazy to believe in silly things, but it's not that easy

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.