Madness Quotes - Page 35

• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Love Is, Insane

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• If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Men, Australia

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• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

  Irving Layton

  Self, Misanthrope, Cowardice

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

  Lydia Davis

  Real, Mad, Darkness

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Nuts, World, Littles

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

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• Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

  Nita Lowey

  Children, Gun, America

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• Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in religion that assures you God hates you for all of that - and then look me in the eye and tell me you can feel ok about yourself. I dare you. I just dare you.

  Ken Wilber

  Hate, Eye, Gay

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• If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  May, Heroic, Scales

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Blue, August, Imagination

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

  Philip Sidney

  Said

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

  Propertius

  Love, Blind

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• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

  Marilyn

  Thinking, Imperfection, Genius

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• The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Crazy, Apples, Ordinary

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• Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mind, Body, Should

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.209

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• I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

  Michelle Wie

  Sports, Crazy, Psychology

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• Success can create more madness than happiness.

  Billy Ocean

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• I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Crazy, Cruise, Crisis

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• The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

  William Klein

  Photography, New York, Lying

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• The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Wise, Thinking, Firsts

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

  John Moffitt

  Thinking, Risk, Body

  "John Moffitt was unhappy, quits NFL". www.espn.com. November 7, 2013.

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• I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

  Max Weinberg

  Crazy, Nice, Kids

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• We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

  Mike Rutherford

  Eye, Railroads, Speed

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• I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Crazy, Guy, Bird

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• I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

  Phillip Lim

  Heart, Classicists, Bits

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