Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

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

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

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

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.

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.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

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

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

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

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

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.

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

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

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.

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

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.

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.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

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.

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

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In my madness I see your face in mine.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.