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Madness Quotes - Page 18

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

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

Christopher Fry
Madness, Happens
Christopher Fry (1952). “A Phoenix Too Frequent”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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

Charles Grandison Finney
Light, Thrones, Madness
Charles Grandison Finney (1965). “So great salvation: evangelistic messages”

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
Stress, Madness, Daily Life
Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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

Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful, Drunk, Madness

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand

Casper Van Dien
Crazy, Thinking, Madness

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

Carolina Herrera
Fashion, Lasts, Madness
"The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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

C. S. Lewis
Broken, Necks, Madness

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Bob Edwards
Brain, Madness, Mediums

Not to be mad is another form of madness

Blaise Pascal
Inspirational, Mad, Madness

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

Bertrand Russell
War, Insanity, Madness

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Bernard Cornwell
Men, Madness, Sometimes
Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.183, Macmillan

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Benjamin Moser
Madness, Reason, Mathematics
Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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

Benjamin Franklin
Soldier, Revolution, Madness
Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.437

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

Arundhati Roy
Madness, Moments, Chinks
Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.214, Penguin Books India

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

Armistead Maupin
Locks, Way, Madness

the possession of power brings on madness.

Ariana Franklin
Power, Madness, Possession

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

Anuj
Age, Madness, Forbidden

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

Anne Fortier
Sweet, Want, Madness
Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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

Allan Bloom
May, Normal, Madness
Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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

Alison Goodman
Believe, Men, Madness
Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.43, Penguin

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

Adolf Hitler
Believe, Would Be, Madness
Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

Madness has no sense of humour

Adam Foulds
Madness, Humour
Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, Random House

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