Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

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'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Madness, and then illumination.

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

Love is merely a madness.

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 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.