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You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's black.

You think I’ll weep? No, I’ll not weep. Storm and tempest. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or e’re I’ll weep.—O Fool, I shall go mad.

You think it's creative... I only feel like being insane.

You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like hearing something creeping along the walls, just behind my head, getting closer and closer. A big insect, maybe a scorpion. A dry skittering, that's what madness sounds like to me.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 temporary madness.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Anger is a momentary madness.

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

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")

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.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

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

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

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

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.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

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

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.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

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

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.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

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

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Every age is blind to its own worst 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

Evil is whatever distracts.

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.