Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

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

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Madness, and then illumination.