Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
