Quotes of Mania - somelinesforyou

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. ”

- Don Quixote

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

- Robin Williams

“ Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. ”

- Henrik Tikkanen

“ Sanity is madness put to good uses. ”

- George Santayana

“ Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness —. ”

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Emily Dickinson

“ Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. ”

- George Santayana

“ Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Why, this is very midsummer madness. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. ”

- John Gay

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

- John Milton

“ You are seeing a kind of dot-com madness. ”

- Jonathan Sacks

“ Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ No great genius is without an admixture of madness. ”

- Aristotle

“ It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation. ”

- Frieda Lawrence

“ Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ I don't believe in fad diets. ”

- Jenny Craig

“ The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ”

- Otto Weininger

“ We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. ”

- Anatole France

“ Optimism is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ When love is not madness, it is not love. ”

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“ Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ”

- Oscar Levant
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