Madness Quotes - Page 13

• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insanity

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Creativity, Mad, Trying

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• The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mountain, Littles, Sanity

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• Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Savages, Music Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Loneliness, Crowds

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• I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Giving, Culture, Might

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.

  Lori Goldstein

  Thinking, Mixing, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiration, Needs, Disease

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Destiny, Men, Play

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• If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Looks, Monkeys

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• What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

  Tupac Shakur

  Struggle, People

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• Idealism has devolved into madness.

  Ralph Peters

  Idealism

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• I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Intelligent, Mind

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• The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Technique, Raw Materials

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• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Borders, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

  Jose Mujica

  Solitude, Trying, Down And

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Loneliness, Imagination, Scary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

  Philip K. Dick

  Goes On, Dynamism

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

  Tom Verlaine

  Order, Television

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• You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.

  Frederick The Great

  Christian, Insanity, Insult

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• Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Next, States

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• The universe without music would be madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Would Be, Without Music, Universe

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• At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

  John Lennon

  Christian, Religious, Bullshit

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• One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Dark, Self

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• Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

  Taryn Manning

  Party, People, Annoying

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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