I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?

William Saroyan

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

William Shakespeare

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

G. K. Chesterton

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

J. G. Ballard

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Emily Dickinson

There will be some confusion. It could be April Madness.

David Zion

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Ambrose Bierce

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Terence

St. Francis has a great program. It's one of those games where I hope we can just hang around as long as we can and get a few breaks. You never know - it's March Madness.

Todd Hursey

We even have an armed guard with our folks, as do other teams there. It's just turned into a kind of madness.

Maurice Luque

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Sextus Propertius

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.

Ted Morgan

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Francesco Petrarch

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Charles Baudelaire

This madness has reached us, and we have to deal with it.

Marwan Muasher

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Hermann Broch

I think there is some sense by the court that it's time to stop the madness.

Nathaniel Persily

It's basically a story about obsession and madness.

Natasha Richardson

The anti-marijuana madness has got to end.

Mason Tvert

We work in 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

Act of sheer madness.

Lionel Jospin

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Otto Weininger

You are seeing a kind of dot-com madness.

Jonathan Sacks

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Price

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.

John Milton

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

Theodore Roethke

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

Robin Williams

As a veteran player, I understand there's a method to his madness.

Drew Bledsoe

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

David Herbert Lawrence

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Paglia

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

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To understand madness is to be a bit mad.

Addison Gayle, Jr.

Is someone who can own the screen for a few minutes, someone who brings this extraordinary authority, his own smiling madness. See if Donald Sutherland is free!

Donald Sutherland

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

On Nov. 22...the last dike broke and madness flooded in. What happened there was unthinkable and unspeakable.

David Haynes

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some form of normalcy with all the madness going on. ... It's a different experience for him. We're excited about having him go to a different school and getting a different perspective on learning.

Joseph Jackson

I always wished I could be part of it. It's craziness. It's March Madness!

Petra Kulhankova

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

Herman Melville

The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

We've been as busy or busier than the Christmas holidays. There's the Super Bowl, and right after it is the Olympics, and then there's March Madness.

Greg Nelson

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

R. D. Laing

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Andre Gide

Whatever's happened to him, it's came out of, it's just been out of madness over something he's done or out of sickness just because they don't care.

Amy White

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 Saavedra

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Thomas Browne, Sr.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John le Carre

There was a lot of craziness and madness on the set - a lot of energy and violence.

Charlie Hunnam

It's not all madness. There is some method there, ... I don't know how much; that's very hard to calibrate. But it's not all crazy.

John Hand

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Nora Ephron

We don't expect it to have any impact on our Mega Madness package. The experience is not the same.

Robert Mercer

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

William Congreve

When March Madness is in Indianapolis, there's probably no other place that can have this kind of basketball in a mile square area.

Rick Fuson

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting

It's madness, but you also have people speaking on your behalf.

Ed Perlmutter

Fans were chanting my name. I've never been to a midnight madness where fans were doing something like that.

Eric Gordon