Madness Quotes

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May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be above the Madness of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I soar on eagle wings,
high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

About half my designs are controlled fantasy,
15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
- Manolo Blahnik

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe

Anger is a short madness.
- Horace

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
- David Herbert Lawrence

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- G. M. Trevelyan

There is a kind of euphoria of grief,
a degree of madness.
- Nigella Lawson

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

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.
We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live,
to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
- David Cronenberg

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
- Theodore Roethke

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,
but not the madness of people.
- Isaac Newton

So reports of my madness, as they say,
were greatly exaggerated.
Not that I give a bugger either way.
- David Icke

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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.
- Michel Foucault

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- John Dryden

So long as man is protected by madness -
he functions -
and flourishes.
- Emile M. Cioran

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would
amount to another form of madness.
- Blaise Pascal

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

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly,
but music-everything is based on music.
No, I'll never stop my music.
- George Harrison

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
- Allen Ginsberg

Excess of grief for the dead is madness;
for it is an injury to the living,
and the dead know it not.
- Xenophon

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked.
- Allen Ginsberg

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and
do something other than paint,
considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
- Frank Auerbach

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying
the voice of the people is the voice of God,
since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
- Alcuin

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events,
because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
- John Dryden

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
- Sextus Propertius

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business.
Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled
with all the madness of the Dallas office.
- Mike Wilson

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness;
its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- Andre Gide

Madness need not be all breakdown.
It may also be break-through.
It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
- R. D. Laing

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
- Jonathan Swift

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy
divisions of mankind by party-spirit,
which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
- Otto Weininger

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it.
If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
- Naomi Wolf

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've
realized mine and found a way to let it out.
- John Glover

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
- Ambrose Bierce

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic.
It's a kind of madness really.
- Tom Baker

But my doubt would not be overcome.
Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness
of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness.
For me it was sometimes both.
- Georg Brandes

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books.
The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
- Camille Paglia

We work n the dark - we do what we can -
we give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.
The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James

You're only given a little spark of madness.
You mustn't lose it.
- Robin Williams

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not
the sublimity of the intelligence.
- Edgar Allan Poe

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better
than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
- Terence

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

Our constancy, same might call it our madness,
was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which,
in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
- Frederica Montseny

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness,
like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
- Petrarch

The first draught serveth for health,
the second for pleasure, the third for shame,
and the fourth for madness.
- Anacharsis

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 longing for the sea and yet afraid.
- Edgar Lee Masters

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?
It is the greatest of all possible evils;
for it is folly,
vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
- Edmund Burke

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant,
of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
- Marston Morse

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos,
of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it
would just pop and vanish,
just explode.
- Spalding Gray

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
- William Congreve

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope

A person needs a little madness, or else they never
dare cut the rope and be free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

True, we love life, not because we are used to living,
but because we are used to loving.
There is always some madness in love,
but there is also always some reason in madness.
- Petrarch

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all,
to see life as it is and not as it should be.
- Miguel de Cervantes

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
- Aristotle

You call it madness, but I call it love.
- Don Byas

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie