Madness Quotes - Page 33

• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Growing Up, Sticks, Yards

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• Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.

  Doug Peacock

  Book, Winter, Years

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Creative, Distraction

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• Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

  Timothy Long

  Breakup, Block, Sadness

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• Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

  Paul Burch

  Music, Home, Artist

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• Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Results, Certainty, Uncertainty

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• ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Our Actions, Flight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

  Brian Lumley

  Romantic, Crazy, Evil

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• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Regret, Real

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• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

  Alexander Herzen

  Cities, Venice, Genius

  "The lost city of Venice" by Josh McHugh, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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• In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Men, Voice

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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• Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Believe, Passion, Mean

  Jean Dubuffet (1974). “Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery”

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• I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

  Edvard Munch

  Wall, Artist, Might

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• My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

  Edvard Munch

  Religious, Father, Angel

  Edvard Munch, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Edvard Munch (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.

  Jeremy Denk

  Thinking, Play, Skills

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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  Ian Botham

  Football, Running, Golf

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• All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

  Trevor Baylis

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

  Trevor Baylis

  Glasses, Together, Inventor

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• We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Ideas, Enough

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