Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Anger is temporary madness.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

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 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.

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")

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

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

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

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

...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.

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

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.

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

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

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

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)

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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

Evil is whatever distracts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

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

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.