There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Alcuin

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Petrarch

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Mike Wilson

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Emile M. Cioran

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Edward Fitzgerald

You call it madness, but I call it love.
Don Byas

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams