Madness

Famous quotes containing the word madness:

“Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
For love to continue and be gradually different.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever, and what rage is to anger. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)