Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

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.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

Evil is whatever distracts.

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.