Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Everywhere you turn in New Zealand, there's something exciting to do. It's the gem of the world. It's so far away from the madness, and so you get that element. It was just stunning.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
