Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Terence

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Albrecht Durer

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
John Glover

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
George Harrison

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
Chris Lowe

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. Ballard

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller