Madness Quotes

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought… — Abraham Lincoln
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. — Lorna Luft
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? — Lorna Luft
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. — Lydia Lunch
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. — Robert Mapplethorpe
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat… — Edgar Lee Masters
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. — Marlee Matlin
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. — Mercedes McCambridge
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time. — Freddie Mercury
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. — Henry Miller
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Marilyn Monroe
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. — Michel de Montaigne
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. — Michael Moore
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to… — Benjamin Netanyahu
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. — Camille Paglia
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would… — Chuck Palahniuk
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. — Michael Palin
We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves. — Trey Parker
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — Blaise Pascal

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