The 65 best quotes on madness as a philosophy of life.

Insanity can be understood as a way of living life that goes beyond the conventional.

The phrases of madness that we will see in this article are a sign that, although this concept has been used for centuries to stigmatize, much of what was once seen as "crazy stuff" is actually a mixture of creativity and rebellion.

Insanity is often associated with times when all thoughts become very irrational and difficult to control. However, to some extent we are all irrational and perceive reality through biases. In fact, some of humanity's most influential thinkers and authors emphasize the need to accept these experiences and highlight their value, rather than pitying the person experiencing them or blaming them for the bad things that happen to them.

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Phrases about madness

These are some of the most interesting phrases about madness from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Madeleine Roux or George R. R. Martin.

1. Insanity is the inability to communicate one's ideas (Paulo Coelho)

Curious definition of madness by this famous Brazilian writer.

2. The great madness of man and woman is love (Paulo Coelho)

For many, love is the ultimate expression of madness.

3. In my madness I have found freedom and security; the freedom of solitude and the security of not being understood (Kahlil Gibran).

The Arab poet expressed his way of seeing this psychological phenomenon.

4. There is a word to define the moment when fantasy and reality mix: madness (Laia Soler).

It does not always have to be a negative state.

5. Insanity is the only way to escape slavery (Paulo Coelho)

For some it is martyrdom; for others, freedom.

6. Madness: the new social normality (Rick Yancey)

Faced with the development of modern society, some authors defined insanity in this way.

7. I have loved to the point of madness; for me, it is the only sensible way to love (Françoise Sagan).

With this phrase of madness, the relationship between madness and love is reaffirmed. the relationship between madness and love.

8. Intelligence has certain limitations. Insanity, almost none (Darynda Jones)

We are very used to behave in a very rational way.

9. Money is our madness, our immense collective madness (D. H. Lawrence).

Criticism of the values of modern society.

10. A little madness in the spring is healthy even for the king (Emily Dickinson)

In the spring everyone gets upset. Good time to fall in love.

11. The folly of the great must not go (William Shakespeare)

The English playwright delighted us with this phrase about madness.

12. Anger is a short madness (Horace)

The Greek philosopher defined with this phrase what madness was for him.

13. A truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence (Henrik Tikkanen)

Tikkanen was very clear about madness.

14. People need madness, otherwise one is never free (Nikos Kazantzakis)

Once again, madness is related to freedom.

15. All cities are mad (Christopher Morley)

Morley saw a clear deterioration of the modern urban model.

16. My madness is sacred, don't touch it (Salvador Dalí)

The eccentric Catalan artist boasted of his apparent madness.

17. Madness is just an occasional visitor who takes her time and tries to get to know everyone personally (Darynda Jones).

We all have our moments of weakness.

18. Sinking into madness is not an inevitability, perhaps it is also a choice (Anne Sophie Brasme).

Many people prefer to live beyond reality.

19. There was the hardness of the breasts, the habit of tenderness, but the madness of the Heart remained intact (Gabriel García Márquez).

The famous Colombian writer offered another point of view about madness.

20. It is madness to hate all the roses because one pricked you (Antoine de Saint Exupéry).

Madness and love seem to be synonymous, once again.

21. But I don't suffer from my madness, I enjoy every minute of it (Sherrilyn Kenyon).

Another way of relating madness with freedom and creativity.

22. He fell into melancholy, then into inappetence, and down this fatal slope is the one that now makes him rave and that we all regret (William Shakespeare)

Curious way to describe this state of mind.

23. There is always some madness in love (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nietzsche reflected much on the role of rationality.

24. You are only given a little spark of madness. You must not lose it (Robin Williams)

Well-known and now deceased humorous actor, he left us interesting phrases about life.

25. The great test of madness is the immoderation of one's own designs according to his means (Napoleon Bonaparte).

The words of an emperor should not be belittled.

26. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness (Aristotle).

The Greek thinker was another advocate of freedom in living life.

27. It is folly for sheep to talk peace with a wolf (Thomas Fuller).

Good metaphor to describe madness.

28. Insanity is to think of too many things too quickly in series, or of one thing too exclusively (Voltaire).

A witty aphorism by this French philosopher.

29. Insanity is liberation and potential renewal (R. D. Laing)

Many give a "healthy" meaning to madness.

30. What is life? A madness (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)

One of the most illustrious Spanish authors defined madness in this way.

31. Madness is invigorating and invigorating. It makes the sane saner (Henry Miller)

The American author and writer was always a break with convention.

32. I think we all have a little of that beautiful madness that keeps us going when everything around us is so insanely sane (Julio Cortázar).

Madness and freedom of thought come together again.

33. Too much sanity can be the worst of follies, to see life as it is and not as it should be (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra).

The most famous Spanish writer. Perhaps this was the idea that led him to write Don Quixote.

34. Accept madness. Creates delirium. Establishes doubt. Nourishes paranoia (John Katzenbach)

Katzenbach was very clear about the benefits of madness.

35. Sometimes, the mind receives such a brutal blow that it hides in dementia (Patrick Rothfuss).

Insanity is a refuge from a bad personal period.

36. Because the greatest madness that a man can do in this life is to let himself die without more or more (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra).

Another of the phrases on the madness of this great Spanish writer.

37. I envy your madness, I envy the mental labyrinth in which you lose yourself.

The German poet emphasized the complexity of madness.

38. You have to be a little crazy to put up with so many idiots (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Excellent way to define madness with this phrase.

39. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results (Albert Einstein).

Brilliant statement by the German genius.

40. Life is madness. Madness to live, to love, to smile (Megan Maxwell).

This is how the Spanish comedy writer described madness.

41. To return to youth is only to repeat its follies (Oscar Wilde)

Many, on becoming adults, miss their youth.

Only the battlefield reveals to man his own folly and despair (William Faulkner).

A harsh critique of what war is and what it makes us feel. Madness seen as something that is not born inside "sick people", but depends on the context.but depends on the context.

43. Only a friend should censure a friend's madness (J. R. R. R. Tolkien)

Interesting quote from the writer of the Lord of the Rings.

44. Courage and madness are first cousins (George R. R. R. Martin)

Another witty quote about madness.

45. Love is madness and lust is poison (George R. R. Martin)

Interesting dichotomy.

46. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has whom locked in which cage (Madeleine Roux).

American writer gave another point of view about madness with this phrase.

47. Insanity consists in breaking with reality, I had reached that state, and it was a pleasant sensation (Parinoush Saniee).

Curious way of defending madness.

48. I could surrender to it and spend the rest of my life among sweet illusions, in the freedom of alienation (Jim Jarmusch).

The eccentric film director is famous for his delirious films.

49. One man's madness is another man's sanity (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Madness and sanity can be seen as two poles of the same dimension.

50. Is madness so far from wisdom? (George R. R. Martin)

George Martin leaves us another pearl with this sentence.

51. Life is full of follies that are nothing more than small everyday follies (J. M. G. Le Clézio).

For some people, we all commit follies every day.

52. If you do not remember the slightest folly into which love made you fall, you have not loved (William Shakespeare)

Shakespeare relates love to madness, once again.

53. I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness (Allen Ginsberg)

Ginsberg describes one of the tragedies into which genius falls..

54. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, even though it may seem madness to those who cling to false hopes (J. R. R. R. Tolkien)

Tolkien is very sincere with this sentence about madness.

55. Imperfection is beauty, insanity is genius (Nick Vujicic)

In madness are born some of the most brilliant ideas.

56. Insanity is a point of view (Micky Bane)

The American broadcaster gives us his humble opinion in brief.

57. Because madness is a force of nature, for better or for worse (Italo Calvino)

Sometimes, we cannot control these kinds of impulses.

58. Dreams and madness are two sides of the same coin (Roy Jacobsen)

The Norwegian writer is famous for his fantasy novels.

59. I turned to photography because it seemed the perfect way to make a point about the madness of today's existence (Robert Mapplethorpe).

The famous black and white photo artist saw madness in an image.

60. In madness, you have to find calm (Lupita Nyong'o)

Madness is not always unrest.

61. Everyone's youth is a dream, a form of chemical insanity (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The youth we all long for is beyond logic.

62. Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting (John Russell).

Many thinkers perceive an exaggerated control of human behavior.

63. There is a kind of painful euphoria, a degree of madness (Nigella Lawson).

The famous British chef and presenter uttered this phrase on her television program.

64. Optimism is the folly of insisting that everything is all right when we are miserable (Voltaire).

A stroke of Voltaire's genius.

65. In my madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world (John Forbes Nash)

This is how the famous mathematician described his moments of madness.