Madness Quotes - Page 17

• If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

  Plato

  Men, Self, Mind

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve (2012). “A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues”, p.231, Hackett Publishing

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• There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Trying, Shows

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience, and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mini.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Intelligent, Able

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Scary

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• "Alleluia" song is a street hymn in the sense that it's all about culture.It's almost a juxtaposition of the prayers of the world and the prayers of the culture and how we sometimes put an "amen" after crazy things. So it's really just that tension between madness and simplicity.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Song, Prayer, Crazy

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  Narendra Modi

  Past, Live In The Present, Burden

  "Q&A: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi". Interview with Amol Sharma, blogs.wsj.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.

  Barry Kerch

  Morning, Children, Kids

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex Orféo reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.

  Michael Tobias

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important. What's going on with this industry now is crazy. That obsession with celebrity is madness. I try as hard as I can not to read that stuff. Because most of the time it's a bit... factual. And it's frustrating because it's not about what you're setting out to do as an actor.

  Juno Temple

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm very glad I've got a make-up artist. I have trouble going to school when I've got bad spots and things like that so I still don't understand how I got up in front of a camera and did it. I almost had a moment of madness every time I did that. It's difficult and it's scary and you hope that people won't be looking at your flaws, especially when you're in 3D as well.

  Georgie Henley

  School, Artist, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think fame and all that madness, people taking your pictures all the time, drives me insane. It's a catch 22...the more they take pictures of you, the more upset you get by it and the more crazy you look and the more pictures they take of you. I think it's disgusting what's happened with that kind of celebrity culture right now.

  Juno Temple

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Bipolar, Wealth, Manifest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.

  Emily Yoffe

  Hurt, Children, War

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In space, you can't see the borders. It doesn't look like a map. We're all like kids fighting in a sandbox, on the political and human side of it. The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it's madness. It's also a feat of policy - Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.

  David Saint-Jacques

  Country, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on. People are live streaming from the ground, so everyone's starting to become more aware. When you pull back from this playground of duality, where someone is right and someone is wrong, you recognise that this is the way things have played out for years and years. And as long as the youth culture can see the madness that's going on in the world, there will eventually be a revolution.

  Craig David

  Cutting, Long, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much radiation in it that it will wipe out an entire city and think that it's not going to blow over your own cities? We all breathe the same air. It's madness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blow, Thinking, Over You

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• Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

  Francis of Assisi

  Injury, Pardon Me, Let Me

  Speech of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, www.priestsforlife.org. February 03, 1994.

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• Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

  Dave Barry

  Crazy, Reading, Literature

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• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Dwelling, People

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• Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

  Saul Bellow

  Free Yourself, Distraction, Found

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• I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.

  Justin Bieber

  Crush, Hurt, Hands

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• What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

  Juliette Binoche

  Travel, Crazy, Adventure

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• I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

  Lewis Black

  Basketball, Football, College

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Half

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