Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

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.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

the possession of power brings on madness.