Madness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
-- Aleister Crowley -
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
-- Alison Goodman -
It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.
-- Allan Bloom -
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
-- Anais Nin -
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
-- Anais Nin -
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
-- Anais Nin -
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
-- Andre Gide -
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
-- Anne Carson -
It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
-- Anne Fortier -
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
-- Anne Rice -
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
-- Anthony Burgess -
the possession of power brings on madness.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
-- Aristotle -
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
-- Aristotle -
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
-- Armistead Maupin -
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
-- Arthur Honegger -
I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.
-- August Kleinzahler -
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
-- August Strindberg -
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
-- Basil Bunting -
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
-- Benjamin Moser -
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.
-- Benny Hinn -
Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
-- Bernard Cornwell -
Success can create more madness than happiness.
-- Billy Ocean -
The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it
-- Brad Pitt -
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...
-- Brad Thor -
Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint
-- Brent Weeks -
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.
-- Brian Aldiss -
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
-- Bruce Sterling -
...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
-- Charles Bukowski -
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
-- Christopher Fry -
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
-- Christopher Paolini -
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
-- Clarice Lispector -
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
-- Creed Bratton -
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
-- Daisy Donovan -
But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
-- David Farland -
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
-- David Icke -
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
-- David McCullough -
There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.
-- Dmitry Glukhovsky -
Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
-- Dorothea Benton Frank -
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
-- E. Lockhart -
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
-- Edward Abbey -
I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.
-- Elliott Gould -
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --
-- Emily Dickinson -
If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.
-- Emma Forrest -
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
-- Erich Segal -
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
-- Euripides -
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
-- Ezra Pound -
Chess and theatre often lead to madness.
-- Fernando Arrabal -
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
-- Francis Atterbury -
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
-- Francis of Assisi -
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
-- Francoise Sagan -
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
-- Frank Herbert -
There is always some madness in love.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
-- Georg Brandes -
I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.
-- George C. Wolfe -
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
-- George Harrison -
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
-- George Santayana -
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.
-- Glen Duncan -
I am mad - but I choose this madness.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa -
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
-- Grant Morrison -
Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.
-- Grant Morrison -
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
-- H. G. Wells -
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
-- Henrik Tikkanen -
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
-- Henry Miller -
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
-- Hermann Broch -
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
-- Horace
