Madness Quotes - Page 15

• You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

  Marion Cotillard

  Good Things, Deals

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

  Alex Hirsch

  Mom, Fall, Glasses

  Source: collider.com

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• Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Different, Genius, World

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• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

  Sally Phillips

  Lying, Google, Way

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• Anger is brief madness

  Horace

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• Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

  Albert Camus

  Kissing, Fire, Trying

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• If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

  Thomas Nagel

  Giving, World, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Writing, Men

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• My wits begin to turn.

  William Shakespeare

  Wit, Turns

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spring, Mean, Psychosis

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• The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

  Edward Robb Ellis

  Mad, Television, World

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• Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

  Sam Smith

  Legacy, Wonder, Rich

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• There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

  Pras Michel

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

  Erin Heatherton

  Hair, Personality, Secret

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• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Plot, Horror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Jesus, Media

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• Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

  Plato

  Blessing, Way, Divine

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• Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

  James Scott Bell

  Worry, Victory, Way

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• It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Self, Wind

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Taken, Thinking

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• I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Mean, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fighting, Finals, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.

  David Edelstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Filled In

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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