Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Naomi Wolf
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
Jo Brand
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Georg Brandes
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Creed Bratton
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
Anger is a short madness.
Horace