Madness Quotes - Page 7

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

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

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

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

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

The universe without music would be madness.

Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.

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

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

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

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

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.

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

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.

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

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.