55 Movie Quotes about Madness (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 13, 2025

Memorable quotes about madness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Of course, if I bumped the loathing to 9:00, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling, and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?

Jim Carrey as The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2 Tell me, friend, when did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

3 This is blasphemy. This is madness!

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

4 Think of what all those walls are hiding. Broken hopes and bodies and hearts. Absent dreams. Starvation, madness. Crimes of the streets. And tragedies of the river.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Mirakle in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

5 I heard of one planet up in the seventh dimension, got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole, killed ten billion people. -Madness, total madness! -Only scored 30 points, too.

David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6 This is either madness or brilliance. -It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow; Orlando Bloom as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

7 The city degenerated into a total fear zone. The citizenry cocooning in their homes, afraid to go out. People just wanted the madness over.

Nigel Hawthorne as Raymond Cocteau in Demolition Man

8 You've driven me near madness with your peering through the keyholes, and peeping through the curtains. And now you'll suffer for it!

Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933)

9 Your health will be ruined if you persist in this madness.

Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931)

10 But I never intended all this madness, never.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

55 Movie Quotes about Madness (+ Sound Clips)

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