Madness Quotes

1261 Madness quotes by 825 unique authors

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that… — Judith Jamison
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I… — George McGovern
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be. — Miguel de Cervantes
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered… — James Joyce
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? — Alain de Botton
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a… — John Updike
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good… — Socrates
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're… — Ioan Gruffudd
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the… — Doug Peacock
Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul… — Unknown Author
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of… — Unknown Author
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — William Shakespeare
I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only… — Mother Teresa
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant… — Alexander Herzen
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to… — Emma Goldman
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to… — Unknown Author
I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and… — Barbra Streisand
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot
My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow,… — Edvard Munch

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