madness Quotes

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“First sign of madness, talking to your own head”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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“Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:understanding madness

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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