Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

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

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

Evil is whatever distracts.

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)

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

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

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

[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.

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.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

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

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

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.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

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

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

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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 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.

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.

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

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?