Madness Quotes - Page 28

• On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

  Remedios Varo

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

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• Hatred is the madness of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

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• People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

  Scott Lachance

  Hockey, Thinking, People

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Love You, Love Is

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Rage

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drunkenness

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• Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Revolution, Reform, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.287, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Atmosphere, Would Be

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

  Larry Wall

  Crazy, Lying, Hands

  Usenet article <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>, groups.google.com. July 3, 1992.

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• You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Rainy Day, Weather, Mad

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• The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Mirrors, Ego Problem

  "History as Literature".

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• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Marriage, Dog

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.80, Vintage

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  Basil Bunting

  Temptation, Age, Moments

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Love You, Sadness, Soul

  Bruce Springsteen (2016). “Born to run (edició en català)”, p.255, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  John Updike

  Leadership, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “The Coup: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• Some men grow mad by studying much to know,
  But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Science, Mad

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• It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Science, Contradiction

  Francis Bacon (1813). “The Novum Organum Scientiarum: In Two Parts”, p.2

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• In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

  Leo Rosten

  Fear, Book, Dark

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”

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• Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your sanity intact. Meditation is the greatest discovery ever made, and I don't think there is ever going to be another discovery which can surpass meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Thinking, Discovery

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