Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Naomi Wolf

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
David Icke

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
Spalding Gray

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Hermann Broch

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
Nigella Lawson

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche