Madness Quotes - Page 16

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.

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

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

Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.

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

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

This is too much madness to explain in one text.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

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

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

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

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

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

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

My love's a noble madness.

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

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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.

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.

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

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

Anger is brief madness

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.