Madness Quotes - Page 26

• I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Fear, Real

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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  As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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• He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Laughing, Ears

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Dream, Lying, May

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• If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

  Mary Balogh

  Pleasure, Worst, Ifs

  Mary Balogh (2012). “The Temporary Wife/A Promise of Spring”, p.235, Dell

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• Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

  Paullina Simons

  Pain, Tree, Growing

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• He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

  Paul Theroux

  Accomplished, Clear

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

  Alison Goodman

  Believe, Men

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.43, Penguin

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• During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

  Tahir Shah

  Suicide, Work Out, Mind

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• I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Taken, Choices, Wells

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Bipolar

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• Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

  Melissa Marr

  Beautiful, Art, Creative

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• A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Absurd, Relation, Situation

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• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

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• Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

  William Faulkner

  Looks, Aghast, Satan

  William Faulkner (1936). “Absalom, Absalom!”, Random House (NY)

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• There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

  Anais Nin

  Vision

  "La casa dell'incesto".

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• I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Book, Night

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• Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

  Alan Moore

  Doors, Dc Comics, Forever

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Justice, Noise

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.565, e-artnow

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• She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Lying, Paris

  Anne Sexton, “Oh”

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• Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Men, Sometimes, Ends

  Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

  Clive Barker

  Grateful, Mad, Sane

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jan 16, 2013

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Stress, Sadness, Thinking

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• She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Odds, Worry, Stupidity

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Sanity

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