Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

My wits begin to turn.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

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.

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

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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.

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.

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.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

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

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

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

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

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

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

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

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.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

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

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.

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.

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

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

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

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

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

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

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

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

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

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

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

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

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.