Madness Quotes - Page 10

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

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

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

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

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

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

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

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.

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.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

It takes madness to find out madness.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

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

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

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

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

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.