Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

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.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

Love is merely a madness.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Madness, and then illumination.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

Madness is no madness when shared.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.