Laurence Sterne Quotes

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

All I want to be is normally insane.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

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.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.