Madness Quotes - Page 19

• I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

  Marguerite Duras

  Mother, Believe, People

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.49, Grove Press

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• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, America, Distraction

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  Euripides

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  Larry Flynt

  Jobs, Business, Believe

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• It takes madness to find out madness.

  Lady Gregory

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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• Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Crazy, Nuts, People

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• Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Crazy, Literature, Pounds

  "The New York Post" Newspaper, January 24, 1957.

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• You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Moving On, Crazy, Heaven

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• Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

  Douglas Horton

  Motivational, Success, Simplicity

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Atheist, Teaching

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1279, Library of Alexandria

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• Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

  Michael Jackson

  Beautiful, Crazy, Today

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• I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sexy, Crazy, Mistake

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• Evil is whatever distracts.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Proportion, Draws

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• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mad, Insanity, Psychological

  Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) "On the Strength of a Likeness"

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• Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

  Barbara Kruger

  Crazy, Insanity, Looks

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• Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

  Milan Kundera

  Culture, Avalanches, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.

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• I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Play, Superhero, Film

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• A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

  Anne Lamott

  Dark, Light, Together

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• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Emotional, Thinking

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• If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

  Michael Phelps

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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