Madness Quotes - Page 27

• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Flames

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• What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Debauchery, Mayhem

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on top of a dingy dresser. The closet door was propped open by a pile of books, and from beneath the bed a book stuck out beside the toe of a maroon slipper.

  Steven Millhauser

  Wall, Book, Doors

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.35, Vintage

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• Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soul, Erotic, Devastation

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• The madness of youth made me unafraid.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Youth, Made, Unafraid

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Anger is temporary madness.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Temporary

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• Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, May

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• I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

  George C. Wolfe

  Dance, Dancing, Dancer

  George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

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• If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
  Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

  Carole King

  Life, Trying, Answers

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2017

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Poison

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
  Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
  It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

  John Ford

  Life, Running, Heart

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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• I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Politics, Militarism, Global Issues

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

  John Sterling

  Emotional, Elements, Leading On

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116

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• Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

  Richard Gere

  Kindness, Responsibility, Compassion

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• When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

  S. N. Goenka

  Yoga, Faults, Disappear

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• The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.568

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

  Dave Lindorff

  Country, Children, War

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