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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Votes: 5

Robin Williams

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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. Votes: 5

Andre Gide

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Votes: 4

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madness breeds madness. Votes: 3

Dan Brown

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Madness, and then illumination. Votes: 3

Orson Scott Card

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Madness in method, that's genius Votes: 3

Frank Herbert

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Madness has no sense of humour Votes: 3

Adam Foulds

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Madness is a kind of mental suicide. Votes: 3

Stephen King

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Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness. Votes: 3

Rupert Everett

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. Votes: 3

William Shakespeare

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Votes: 3

Charles Mackay

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Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy. Votes: 3

Jo Brand

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Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man. Votes: 3

Bernard Cornwell

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Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.... Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson

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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on. Votes: 3

Philip K. Dick

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Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded. Votes: 3

Sixto Rodriguez

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Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. Votes: 3

John Hendy

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Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. Votes: 3

Arundhati Roy

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Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood

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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. Votes: 3

R. D. Laing

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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson

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Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. Votes: 3

Stuart Hill

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In 2005, my mad half, HER was bornME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012. Votes: 3

Karen Tyrrell

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources. Votes: 3

Aristotle

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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances. Votes: 3

Philip K. Dick

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Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. Votes: 3

Arundhati Roy

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Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. Votes: 3

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. Votes: 3

Mark Haddon

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Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew. Votes: 3

Chris Galford

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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. Votes: 3

William S. Burroughs

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Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee. Votes: 3

Shirley Hazzard

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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. Votes: 3

Edgar Allan Poe

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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. Votes: 3

Plato

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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do. Votes: 3

Tanith Lee

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Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Votes: 3

Joseph Conrad

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Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. Votes: 3

Michel Foucault

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Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. Votes: 3

Jim Carrey

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If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ? Votes: 3

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. Votes: 3

Ozzy Osbourne

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. Votes: 3

Voltaire

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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. Votes: 3

Michel Foucault

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Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. Votes: 3

Karen Russell

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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. Votes: 3

R. Scott Bakker

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Madness is surprisingly freeing. Votes: 2

Mira Grant

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Madness is no madness when shared. Votes: 2

Zygmunt Bauman

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Madness is the acme of intelligence. Votes: 2

Naguib Mahfouz

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There is always some madness in love. Votes: 2

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. Votes: 2

Allen Ginsberg

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When love is not madness, it is not love. Votes: 2

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. Votes: 2

Charles Bukowski

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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. Votes: 2

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Votes: 2

Ambrose Bierce

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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human. Votes: 2

Plato

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. Votes: 2

Charles Baudelaire

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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Votes: 2

Thomas Fuller

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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. Votes: 2

Waylon Jennings

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The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness! Votes: 2

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind. Votes: 2

Steven Moffat

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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. Votes: 2

Thomas Sankara

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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. Votes: 2

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. Votes: 2

Richard Davenport-Hines

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Votes: 2

Voltaire

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Votes: 2

Isaac Newton

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A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. Votes: 2

Thomas a Kempis

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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. Votes: 2

Randy Savage

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Votes: 2

Marilyn Monroe

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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss Votes: 2

Albert Camus

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Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. Votes: 2

Shannon L. Alder

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Votes: 2

Edgar Allan Poe

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I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. Votes: 2

Matt Damon

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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. Votes: 2

Hermann Broch

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When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. Votes: 2

Kevin James Breaux

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Votes: 2

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. Votes: 2

Kevin James

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To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. Votes: 2

Don DeLillo

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. Votes: 2

Xenophon

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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Votes: 2

Aleister Crowley

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Votes: 2

Henry Miller

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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. Votes: 2

R. D. Laing

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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. Votes: 2

Naomi Wolf

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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. Votes: 2

Michel Foucault

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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. Votes: 2

Edmund Burke

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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. Votes: 2

Geraldine Brooks

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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. Votes: 2

David Cronenberg

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Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

Albrecht Durer

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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. Votes: 2

Edgar Lee Masters

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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Votes: 2

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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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. Votes: 2

Petrarch

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Votes: 2

Graham Greene

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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. Votes: 2

Erich Maria Remarque

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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. Votes: 2

Anne Lamott

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Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. Votes: 2

Max von Sydow

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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. Votes: 2

Robin Williams

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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Votes: 2

Michael Ignatieff

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While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 2

Michael Leunig

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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Votes: 2

Eckhart Tolle

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Too much sanity may be madness. Votes: 1

Miguel de Cervantes

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Anger is temporary madness. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Anger is short-lived madness. Votes: 0

Horace

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Worse than madness. Sanity. Votes: 0

William Golding

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Anger is momentary madness. Votes: 0

Horace

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Anger is brief madness Votes: 0

Horace

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My love's a noble madness. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Anger is a short madness. Votes: 0

Horace

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The madness is runnin' wild! Votes: 0

Randy Savage

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Love is merely a madness. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Anger is a momentary madness. Votes: 0

Horace

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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. Votes: 0

John Milton

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Eccentricty had flowered into madness. Votes: 0

Laurie R. King

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Idealism has devolved into madness. Votes: 0

Ralph Peters

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Collective madness is called sanity .. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Love is . . . a madness most discreet Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Votes: 0

Seneca

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To expect an impossibility is madness. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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Genius - the pursuit of madness. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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the possession of power brings on madness. Votes: 0

Ariana Franklin

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Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. Votes: 0

John Webster

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Chess and theatre often lead to madness. Votes: 0

Fernando Arrabal

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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. Votes: 0

Propertius

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Deep connection is the antidote to madness. Votes: 0

Stefan Molyneux

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The universe without music would be madness. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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Characters are just extensions of my madness. Votes: 0

Mark Tilbury

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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. Votes: 0

John Russell

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The different sorts of madness are innumerable. Votes: 0

Avicenna

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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. Votes: 0

Sextus Propertius

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Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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Success can create more madness than happiness. Votes: 0

Billy Ocean

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Sanity is madness put to good use. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Cancer is the growth of madness denied. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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Like madness is the glory of life. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Every desire has a relation to madness. Votes: 0

Luce Irigaray

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The madness of youth made me unafraid. Votes: 0

Lauren DeStefano

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Hatred is the madness of the heart. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Writing is a form of licensed madness. Votes: 0

Mal Peet

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Love is madness, and lust is poison. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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gardening is a madness and a rapture. Votes: 0

Faith Sullivan

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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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It takes madness to find out madness. Votes: 0

Lady Gregory

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Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness. Votes: 0

Laozi

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The religion of one seems madness unto another. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness! Votes: 0

Randy Savage

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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth. Votes: 0

Yann Martel

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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Votes: 0

Thomas Gray

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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. Votes: 0

Nick Flynn

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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness. Votes: 0

Chloe Thurlow

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You canât have a masterpiece without madness, Votes: 0

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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To remember everything is a form of madness. Votes: 0

Brian Friel

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There nearly always is a method in madness. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You just have to trust your own madness. Votes: 0

Clive Barker

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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Music is a savage art, a measured madness. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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Love is breathing each other with all madness Votes: 0

Seema Gupta

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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom. Votes: 0

Douglas William Jerrold

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The very madness of the scheme protects it. Votes: 0

Iris Murdoch

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In the madness, you have to find calm. Votes: 0

Lupita Nyong'o

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God, here and there, makes madness a calling. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. Votes: 0

Benjamin Moser

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You call it madness, but I call it love. Votes: 0

Don Byas

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Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. Votes: 0

Mary Butts

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I am mad - but I choose this madness. Votes: 0

Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

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Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies. Votes: 0

Sally Phillips

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There is a fine line between perseverance and madness. Votes: 0

Lynda Obst

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Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. Votes: 0

Norman O. Brown

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Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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In my madness I see your face in mine. Votes: 0

David Bowie

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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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There is no genius without a mixture of madness. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness. Votes: 0

Elton John

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Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. Votes: 0

Euripides

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No life is complete without a touch of madness. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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First sign of madness, talking to your own head. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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There are those to whom one must advise madness. Votes: 0

Joseph Joubert

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Not to be mad is another form of madness Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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All of my characters have a glint of madness. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Books were my passion and my escape from madness. Votes: 0

Dorothea Benton Frank

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Every age is blind to its own worst madness. Votes: 0

Allan Bloom

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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. Votes: 0

Thomas Hobbes

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Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness. Votes: 0

Phil Zuckerman

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Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. Votes: 0

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things. Votes: 0

Melissa Kuch

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A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint Votes: 0

Brent Weeks

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The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory. Votes: 0

James Scott Bell

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Troublemakers will infect you with the malady of their madness. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise. Votes: 0

Fernando de Rojas

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Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness... Votes: 0

Brad Thor

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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. Votes: 0

Henrik Tikkanen

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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... Votes: 0

H. P. Lovecraft

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What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? Votes: 0

Josephine Winslow Johnson

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Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison Votes: 0

Jenny Holzer

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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor

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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. Votes: 0

Otto Weininger

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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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What people do for the struggle of power is madness. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are. Votes: 0

Grant Morrison

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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. Votes: 0

J. G. Ballard

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Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power Votes: 0

Pen Densham

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness. Votes: 0

Petrarch

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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. Votes: 0

Aberjhani

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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Votes: 0

Kim Stanley

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This is too much madness to explain in one text. Votes: 0

Leeon Jones

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Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness Votes: 0

Stephen Stills

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I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me. Votes: 0

George C. Wolfe

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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor. Votes: 0

Robert Benchley

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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? Votes: 0

Theodore Roethke

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Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness. Votes: 0

Megan Shepherd

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness Votes: 0

Erich Segal

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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. Votes: 0

Theodore Roethke

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Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. Votes: 0

Francis Atterbury

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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness Votes: 0

Michel Foucault

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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. Votes: 0

Arthur Honegger

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Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness. Votes: 0

John Trudell

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I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Votes: 0

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you. Votes: 0

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people. Votes: 0

Ryan Kwanten

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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world. Votes: 0

Moliere

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Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women. Votes: 0

Alison Goodman

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There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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There is no element of genius without some form of madness. Votes: 0

Leonardo DiCaprio

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There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it. Votes: 0

Mary Renault

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness... Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. Votes: 0

Bergen Evans

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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness Votes: 0

Peter Thiel

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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness! Votes: 0

Phillip Lim

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With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. Votes: 0

Joe Orton

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I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely. Votes: 0

Ronnie Radke

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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. Votes: 0

John Adams

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What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains. Votes: 0

Sir John Davies

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Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker Votes: 0

Grant Morrison

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I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor. Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler

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When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. Votes: 0

S. N. Goenka

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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities. Votes: 0

Hilda Doolittle

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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed Votes: 0

Thomas Moore

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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. Votes: 0

Nigella Lawson

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It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? Votes: 0

Basil Bunting

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Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. Votes: 0

Zohra Sehgal

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There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. Votes: 0

David Bowie

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Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there ... Votes: 0

Timo Tjahjanto

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If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup. Votes: 0

Sheldon B. Kopp

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. Votes: 0

Louis de Bernieres

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I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? Votes: 0

Fernando Pessoa

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My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida. Votes: 0

Karen Russell

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope. Votes: 0

A.A. Attanasio

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It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself. Votes: 0

Allan Bloom

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But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind? Votes: 0

Lady Victoria Leatham

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I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa. Votes: 0

Lance Conrad

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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. Votes: 0

John Forbes Nash

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid! Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you? Votes: 0

Kate Winslet

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The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy. Votes: 0

Kendall Jenner

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I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness. Votes: 0

Daniel Craig

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Doubt "¦ is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. Votes: 0

William Congreve

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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. Votes: 0

Andre Breton

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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness. Votes: 0

Rumi

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There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty. Votes: 0

Dmitry Glukhovsky

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Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Votes: 0

Horace

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Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. Votes: 0

Emilie Autumn

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The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness Votes: 0

Viktor Korchnoi

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation. Votes: 0

Jaggi Vasudev

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. Votes: 0

John Updike

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A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. Votes: 0

Marguerite Yourcenar

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Votes: 0

Allen Ginsberg

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Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. Votes: 0

G. Willow Wilson

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For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. Votes: 0

Marya Hornbacher

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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Votes: 0

G. M. Trevelyan

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! Votes: 0

Brian Spellman

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Votes: 0

Isaac Newton

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If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. Votes: 0

Emma Forrest

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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness? Votes: 0

Sean Penn

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Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness. Votes: 0

Sameh Elsayed

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I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. Votes: 0

Giacomo Casanova

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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness. Votes: 0

Catherynne M. Valente

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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness. Votes: 0

Florence Welch

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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. Votes: 0

Mikhail Lermontov

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy. Votes: 0

Gloria Trevi

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. Votes: 0

Joseph O'Neill

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A little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity." Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... Votes: 0

Anthony Quinn

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. Votes: 0

Hubert Selby Jr.

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If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there... Votes: 0

Armistead Maupin

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Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. Votes: 0

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Votes: 0

Nora Ephron

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Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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And to be wroth with one we love"Doth work like madness in the brain. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness. Votes: 0

Scott Lachance

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That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun. Votes: 0

Sean Penn

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Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under Votes: 0

Ville Valo

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. Votes: 0

Ishmael

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Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. Votes: 0

Joanne Harris

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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. Votes: 0

Socrates

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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time. Votes: 0

Carolina Herrera

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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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He regarded himself as an accomplished writer â a clear sign of madness in anyone. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. Votes: 0

H. P. Lovecraft

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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness - Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies. Votes: 0

Kit Harington

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It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. Votes: 0

Leonid Brezhnev

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With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences. Votes: 0

Doc Brown

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Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does? Votes: 0

Sharon Kay Penman

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If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. Votes: 0

Matt Haig

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Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. Votes: 0

Matt Haig

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To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. Votes: 0

David Hume

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Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. Votes: 0

Jean Dubuffet

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gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved Votes: 0

Seema Gupta

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Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness. Votes: 0

Wayne Coyne

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Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press. Votes: 0

Erin Heatherton

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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. Votes: 0

Philip Sington

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Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. Votes: 0

Susanna Kaysen

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The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real Votes: 0

Peter Milligan

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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world. Votes: 0

Stephanie Ericsson

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Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess

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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Votes: 0

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. Votes: 0

Thomas Brooks

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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Votes: 0

Clive Barker

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He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness Votes: 0

Seema Gupta

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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. Votes: 0

Will Self

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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. Votes: 0

Jeanette Winterson

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. Votes: 0

Christopher Fry

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Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy. Votes: 0

Molly Looby

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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. Votes: 0

Mario Puzo

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I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. Votes: 0

Tom Verlaine

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Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light. Votes: 0

Jennifer Donnelly

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When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures. Votes: 0

Mario Van Peebles

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It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. Votes: 0

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try. Votes: 0

Carole King

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The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. Votes: 0

Louise Bogan

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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness. Votes: 0

Walter Raleigh

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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson

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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. Votes: 0

Vernor Vinge

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Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ? Votes: 0

Evelyn Leilou Colon

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In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ~? Votes: 0

Evelyn Leilou Colon

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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker

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[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. Votes: 0

Plato

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Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe. Votes: 0

Meera

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I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. Votes: 0

Chris Lowe

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In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness. Votes: 0

Joe Rogan

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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness. Votes: 0

Mick Jagger

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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. Votes: 0

John le Carre

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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. Votes: 0

Edward Robb Ellis

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. Votes: 0

John Sterling

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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness? Votes: 0

E. Lockhart

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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. Votes: 0

David Icke

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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. Votes: 0

Bono

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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift. Votes: 0

Plato

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Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: "It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Votes: 0

Susannah Cahalan

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But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9, Votes: 0

Rafael Sabatini

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Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air. Votes: 0

Mithun Chakraborty

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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. Votes: 0

Anacharsis

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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness. Votes: 0

Nizar Qabbani

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I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation? Votes: 0

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane. Votes: 0

Craig Ferguson

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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. Votes: 0

Tom Baker

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Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light? Votes: 0

Charles Grandison Finney

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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open. Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey

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The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Votes: 0

Camille Paglia

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls. Votes: 0

John Updike

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If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. Votes: 0

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. Votes: 0

Rivera Sun

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The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it Votes: 0

Brad Pitt

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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew? Votes: 0

Ringo Starr

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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it. Votes: 0

Edna O'Brien

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It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it. Votes: 0

Anne Fortier

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There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness. Votes: 0

Keegan-Michael Key

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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. Votes: 0

August Strindberg

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Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness. Votes: 0

John Harricharan

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On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness. Votes: 0

Elton John

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. Votes: 0

Sam Smith

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The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up. Votes: 0

Marya Hornbacher

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But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us. Votes: 0

David Farland

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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. Votes: 0

Terence

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We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are. Votes: 0

Danielle Rohr

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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad. Votes: 0

Esme Raji Codell

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I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. Votes: 0

Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

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Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation. Votes: 0

Frieda Lawrence

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Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? Votes: 0

Elie Wiesel

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And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Barbara Januszkiewicz

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Rohinton Mistry

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A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

Elinor Glyn

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Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Paulo Coelho

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You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Jeff Vandermeer

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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

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What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Michel Foucault

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What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

Tibullus

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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Benjamin Rush

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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

Damon Albarn

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For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

Robert Breault

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The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Wayne Dyer

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Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Douglas Adams

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In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Seneca the Younger

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The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

Thomas Szasz

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...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

Martial

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We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Mike Rutherford

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Writing isnât a career choice. Itâs self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

Alain de Botton

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Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

Edward Young

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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

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In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Rumi

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The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Jack Kerouac

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To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Jim Wallis

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Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Joe Rogan

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You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Marion Cotillard

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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

Mary Balogh

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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

Wilfred Owen

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I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

Faith Sullivan

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

Ani DiFranco

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Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Nadine Gordimer

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Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Tom Robbins

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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

Agatha Christie

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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Dean Koontz

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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

George Santayana

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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Julio Cortazar

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I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Russell Brand

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Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Frank Herbert

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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Laurie R. King

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Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

Megan Hart

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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...

Abraham Verghese

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As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Gelett Burgess

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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Louisa May Alcott

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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

William Saroyan

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

Brigitte Bardot

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That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

Eckhart Tolle

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He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Elie Wiesel

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Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

Geoffrey Wood

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Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Karen Joy Fowler

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I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.

Robert Pattinson

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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Desiderius Erasmus

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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

Edward Young

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

Michael Gruber

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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Sam Peckinpah

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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

William Empson

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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Jeanette Winterson

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If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

Samuel Rogers

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

Emile M. Cioran

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Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

Billy Corgan

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Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

John Ford

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Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

Joyce Carol Oates

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President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

Conan O'Brien

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Francis Bacon

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Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Jeremy Taylor

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

H. P. Lovecraft

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In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

John Green

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What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Alexander Blok

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We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Arthur Machen

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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Democritus

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The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

Peter S. Beagle

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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Alfred de Musset

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[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Elie Wiesel

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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

Carl Sagan

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I write as if to save somebodyâs life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

Clarice Lispector

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Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

Nita Lowey

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

R. D. Laing

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The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

Dylan Moran

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... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Joseph Heller

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There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

Pras Michel

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Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

Robert Graves

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t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Charles Bukowski

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Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

Eckhart Tolle

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Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

Sylvia Plath

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In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Virgil

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Understand me. Iâm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

Augustus William Hare

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What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Emile M. Cioran

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

Voltaire

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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Bram Stoker

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We work in 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

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There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

Lord Byron

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All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

George MacDonald

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I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

George R. R. Martin

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My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Bharati Mukherjee

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Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

Norman Mailer

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Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Jack Kerouac

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For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Judi Bari

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Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Trudi Canavan

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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

Billy Joel

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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

Louis Kronenberger

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

Jean de la Bruyere

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The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

Paulo Coelho

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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

John Locke

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Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

Marya Hornbacher

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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 survive even if only for a short time.

Timothy Long

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I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

Anais Nin

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Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

Craig Ferguson

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Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

Francesca Gregorini

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

Voltaire

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I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole madness is about.

Andy Cohen

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Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

Brian Aldiss

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Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

Bryan Kest

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Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them awayâ¦forever." The Joker

Alan Moore

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Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

Anuj

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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

George Santayana

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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Harold Bloom

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

Honore de Balzac

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Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

Paullina Simons

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Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

D. H. Lawrence

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If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable.

Huston Smith

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The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

Charlie Munger

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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 and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

Alexander Herzen

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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

Edwin Land

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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Khalil Gibran

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I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

Sylvia Plath

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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Susanna Kaysen

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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.

Jacqueline Auriol

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One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Eckhart Tolle

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The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Heinrich Heine

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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 being paid to do it. It's borderline madness,

Ioan Gruffudd

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Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

Jose Mujica

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Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

Melissa Marr

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You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Anne Carson

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At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

John Lennon

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In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

Paul Virilio

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...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Anne Fortier

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Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

John Cusack

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You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

Whitney Houston

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You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

Whitney Houston

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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Anais Nin

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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

Ben Okri

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Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

Warren Buffett

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For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

Jeff Feuerzeig

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She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.

George R. R. Martin

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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

Taryn Manning

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What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

Brian Cody

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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Caroline Myss

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The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

Eckhart Tolle

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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Jean Giraudoux

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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

Tom Waits

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Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Allen Ginsberg

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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

John Forbes Nash

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I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

John Moffitt

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You've got to be crazy! It's too late to be sane, too late. You've got to go full tilt bozo... "Cause you're only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you're nothing

Robin Williams

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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Anthony Trollope

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When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

Dave Matthews

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Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

Kate Millett

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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Rebecca West

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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Walter Savage Landor

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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

Edmund Burke

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I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Lawrence Clark Powell

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I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Jason Reeves

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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

Ray Bradbury

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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

Charles Bukowski

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...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Peter Block

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I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Colin Fletcher

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Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

Gary A. Kowalski

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The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

Alice Eve

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By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

Gillian Anderson

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Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

Khalil Gibran

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To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That's why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don't see you behind closed doors.

Nicole Kidman

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There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Steve Allen

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War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Libba Bray

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Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Neil Gaiman

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Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

Trent Reznor

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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

William H. Gass

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

Alexander Pope

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I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

Richard Branson

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The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

Hozier

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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

Alan Moore

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I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.

Jim Cramer

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One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.. ..Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

Marsden Hartley

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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Albert Camus

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When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

Larry Fessenden

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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

Lord Byron

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love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

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Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

Marguerite Duras

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Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

Molly Haskell

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Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

Thomas Carlyle

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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

Jack Kerouac

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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.

Nicole Krauss

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It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

Franz Schubert

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In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

Robert E. Howard

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When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.

Robert W. Service

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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

John Forbes Nash

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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

Theodore Roethke

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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness"she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

Homer

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The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

Nick Cave

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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

Sophocles

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Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

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When you think of the Exorcist, you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

Matt Reeves

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If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

Mark Lawrence

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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religiousâto the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

Edvard Munch

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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

Edward Abbey