Madness Quotes · Page 68

She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and…

— Anne Sexton

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes…

— Pietro Aretino

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but…

— Alexandra Daddario

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of…

— Thomas Szasz

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I have tried to introduce my madness through Shaybani Khan.

— Dino Morea

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…

— Gerald Durrell

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

— Ani DiFranco

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and…

— William Saroyan

An infected writer. Sick of the poetry poison injected inside of her.

— Needa Muy

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth…

— Taryn Manning

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

— Pope Francis

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

— Michael Gruber

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

— George Santayana

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a…

— Ioan Gruffudd

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and…

— Gillian Anderson

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Michel Foucault

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

— Brigitte Bardot

Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the…

— Friedrich Wohler

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

— Terence McKenna

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the…

— John Boehner