Madness Quotes - Page 29

• Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Groups, Individual

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• The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Mean, Somewhere Else

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• This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness, suicide, murder - all kinds of crime.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Real, Ambition

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• My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Cells

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

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• People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Travel, Crazy, Thinking

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• You call it madness, but I call it love.

  Don Byas

  Love, Wedding Invitation, Funny Love

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• The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Joy, Triumph, Delight

  Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”

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• I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'

  Nicolas Cotugno

  Stars, Blessed, Passion

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• Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

  Frieda Lawrence

  War, Men, Faults

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Soulmate, Stars

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• You just have to trust your own madness.

  Clive Barker

  Life, Hate, I Hate You

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 13, 2012

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• One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences.

  Stephen King

  Love, Dream, Children

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• When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

  Denton Welch

  Love, Death, Dream

  Denton Welch (1952). “The Denton Welch Journals”

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• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

  Jean Lorrain

  Real, Men, Law

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• There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

  Sam Peckinpah

  War, Violence, Break Out

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

  Theodore Roethke

  Real, Flying, Suffering

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• And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, War, Stupid

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.35, Open Court Publishing

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• No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Moon, Men

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.

  Robert Pattinson

  Home, Thinking, England

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• War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Insanity, Collectives

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• The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

  Robert Pattinson

  Regret, Hate, Romance

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• Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Way

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

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• No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Chess, Normal

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