Madness Quotations

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

I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

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

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

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

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

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

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.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

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

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

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.

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

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

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.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

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

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

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

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.

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

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

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

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.

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

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

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

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

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

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

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

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

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

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

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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

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

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

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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

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

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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

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

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

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

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

Success can create more madness than happiness.

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

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

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

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

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

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

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

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

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

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.

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.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

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

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The popularity of March Madness On Demand is a testament to the significant progress of streaming video over the past few years.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

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

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

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

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

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.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.