The crazy phrases that we will see in this article They are an example that, although this concept has been used for centuries to stigmatize, much of what was previously seen as “crazy stuff” is actually a mixture of creativity and rebellion.
Madness is usually 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, instead of pitying those who experience them or blaming them for the bad things that happen to them.
The crazy phrases
These are some of the most interesting phrases about madness from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Madeleine Roux or George RR Martin.
1. Madness is the inability to communicate one’s own ideas (Paulo Coelho)
Curious definition of madness from 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 from loneliness and the security of not being understood (Kahlil Gibran)
The Arab poet thus 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 doesn’t always have to be a negative state.
5. Madness is the only way to escape slavery (Paulo Coelho)
For some it is a martyrdom; for others, freedom.
6. Madness: it is the new social normal (Rick Yancey)
Given the development of modern society, some authors defined madness this way.
7. I have loved until I reached madness; For me, it is the only sensible way to love (Françoise Sagan)
With this crazy phrase he reaffirms the relationship between this and love
8. Intelligence has certain limitations. Madness, almost none (Darynda Jones)
We are very used to behaving very rationally.
9. Money is our madness, our immense collective madness (DH 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 madness of the great must not go away (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. Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence (Henrik Tikkanen)
Tikkanen was very clear about what madness is.
14. People need madness, otherwise you will never be free (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Once again madness is related to freedom.
15. All cities are crazy (Christopher Morley)
Morley saw a clear deterioration of the modern urban model.
16. My madness is sacred, do not 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 a fatality, 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 on madness.
20. It is crazy to hate all 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 relate madness with freedom and creativity
22. He fell into melancholy, then into lack of appetite, and it is this fatal slope that now makes him rave and that we all regret (William Shakespeare)
Curious way to describe this state of mind.
23. There is always something crazy in love (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Nietzsche reflected a lot on the role of rationality.
24. You only get a little spark of madness. You must not lose her (Robin Williams)
Well-known and now deceased comedy actor, he left us interesting phrases about life.
25. The great proof of madness is the excess of one’s own designs according to their means (Napoleon Bonaparte)
The words of an emperor should not be underestimated.
26. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness (Aristotle)
The Greek thinker was another defender of freedom when it came to living life.
27. It is madness for sheep to talk of peace with a wolf (Thomas Fuller)
Good metaphor to describe madness.
28. Madness is thinking about too many things in series too quickly, or about one thing too exclusively (Voltaire)
A clever aphorism by this French philosopher.
29. Madness is liberation and potential renewal (RD Laing)
Many give a “healthy” meaning to madness.
30. What is life? Crazy (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
One of the most illustrious Spanish authors defined madness this way.
31. Madness is invigorating and invigorating. Makes the sane saner (Henry Miller)
The American author and writer was always a breaker of convention.
32. I think we all have a little bit 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 madness, seeing 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 The Quijote.
34. Accept the madness. Create delirium. Establish the doubt. Feed 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)
Madness is a refuge from a bad personal time.
36. Because the greatest folly that a man can do in this life is to simply let himself die (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Another of the phrases about the madness of this great Spanish writer.
37. I envy your madness, I envy the mental labyrinth in which you get lost (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The German poet highlighted 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 assertion of the German genius.
40. Life is madness. Madness to live, to love, to smile (Megan Maxwell)
This is how the Spanish comedy author described what madness is.
41. Returning to youth is only repeating your follies (Oscar Wilde)
Many, upon becoming adults, miss their youth.
42. Only the battlefield reveals to man his own madness and despair (William Faulkner)
A harsh criticism of what war is and what it makes us feel. Madness seen as something that It is not born inside “sick” but it depends on the context.
43. Only a friend can censure a friend’s madness (JRR Tolkien)
Interesting quote from the Lord of the Rings writer.
44. Courage and madness are first cousins (George RR Martin)
Another clever phrase about madness.
45. Love is madness and lust is poison (George RR Martin)
Interesting dichotomy.
46. Madness is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage (Madeleine Roux)
American writer gave another point of view on madness with this phrase.
47. Madness consists of breaking with reality, I had reached that state, and it was a pleasant feeling (Parinoush Saniee)
Curious way to defend madness.
48. I could surrender to her 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 once again leaves us another pearl with this phrase.
51. Life is full of crazy things that are nothing more than small everyday crazy things (JMG Le Clézio)
For some we all do crazy things every day.
52. If you do not remember the slightest madness into which love made you fall, you have not loved (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare connects love with madness, once again.
53. I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness (Allen Ginsberg)
Ginsberg describes one of the tragedies in which geniuses fall
54. It is wisdom to recognize need, although it may seem madness to those who cling to false hopes (JRR Tolkien)
Tolkien is very sincere with this phrase about madness.
55. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius (Nick Vujicic)
Some of the most brilliant ideas are born in madness.
56. Madness is a point of view (Micky Bane)
The American announcer briefly gives us his humble opinion.
57. Because madness is a force of nature, for better or worse (Italo Calvino)
Sometimes, we cannot control these types of impulses.
58. Dreams and madness are two sides of the same coin (Roy Jacobsen)
The Norwegian writer is famous for his fantastic novels.
59. I went towards photography because it seemed like the perfect way to highlight the madness of today’s existence (Robert Mapplethorpe)
The famous black and white photo artist saw madness in an image.
60. In the madness, you have to find calm (Lupita Nyong’o)
Madness is not always restlessness.
61. Everyone’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The youth we all long for goes 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 show.
64. Optimism is the folly of insisting that everything is fine when we are miserable (Voltaire)
A genius of Voltaire.
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.
66. There is a certain pleasure in madness, which only the madman knows (Pablo Neruda)
Some of Neruda’s verses reflect on the most important themes of human nature.
67. We are all crazy here. I’m crazy, you’re crazy (Alice in Wonderland)
This phrase uttered by the Laughing Cat is one of the most famous in Lewis Carroll’s novel.
68. The only difference between me and a madman is that the madman believes that he is not mad, while I know that I am (Salvador Dalí)
Dalí knew how to sell his image at all costs, always through provocation and exaltation of his genius.
69. Madness in small doses can give great joy
Living life with a touch of madness can be more fun.
70. If you talk to God you are praying; If God speaks to you you have schizophrenia (Thomas Szasz)
The line between madness and sanity is very fine.
71. I’m not crazy, now I understand. I am mentally divergent (12 monkeys)
A truly interesting film that reflects on madness.
72. I don’t suffer from madness, I enjoy every minute of it (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Madness as a philosophy of life seduces some creative and nonconformist people.
73. How can you love two women at the same time and not be crazy? (Antonio Machín)
This is one of the most remembered verses of this Cuban-Spanish singer.
74. I have no problem being normal but I find madness more fun
Madness has had a certain attraction for some people throughout history.
75. Madness is like gravity, all it takes is a little push (The Dark Knight)
Over the last decade, Heath Ledger’s joker has been one of the most remembered representations of madness.
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