Madness Quotes - Page 12

• It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

  Edward Young

  Daughter, Night, Mad

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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• If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

  Voltaire

  Names, Mad, Wish

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• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

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• I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

  Steven Wright

  Mind, Lost, Disk

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• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  Edward Young

  Love, Wine, Giving

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.191

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• When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Crafts, Sacred

  John Locke (1728). “Two Treatises of Government: In the Former the False Principles & Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer & His Followers, are Detected & Overthrown; the Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent & End of Civil Government”, p.49

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• It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

  John Adams

  Evil, Folly, Imaginary

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

  Florence Welch

  Mean, Love Is, Sickness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Men, Intelligent

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Mad, Secret

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

  Horace

  Momentary

  "Epistularum liber primus (First Book of Letters)". Book by Horace (Epistle 2, line 62), 20 BC.

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• The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Practice, Essentials, Students

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

  Herman Melville

  Cunning, Feline, Humans

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby-Dick”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.

  Daniel Craig

  Want

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

  Franz Schubert

  Laughter, People, World

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• Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?

  Camille Paglia

  Stupid, Mean, Wings

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.246, Vintage

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• It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

  Harold Laski

  Age, Energy, Would Be

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• Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

  Laozi

  Heart, Men, Hunting

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• Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Distance, Zurich

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

  Karen Russell

  Florida, Backyards, Grew

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Accompany You, Feels, Engaging

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2008). “The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo”, p.183, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Madness has no sense of humour

  Adam Foulds

  Humour

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

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