(noun) The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
"It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
"Mental toughness is essential to success."
"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."
"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
"Humour is reason gone mad."
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
"The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."