Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

Madness is no madness when shared.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Madness, and then illumination.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

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

My wits begin to turn.

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.

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

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.

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.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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.

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

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

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.