Madness Quotes - Page 36

• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  Pierre Charron

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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• As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hate, Europe, Circles

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Faces

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• But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.

  David Farland

  Gone

  David Farland (2007). “Wizardborn: Book Three of 'The Runelords'”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Believe, Creativity, Ideas

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• If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Giving, Ifs

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Individuality, Adrift

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• The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness.

  Susan Orlean

  Falling In Love, Night, Men

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• You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Masterpiece

  "Jodorowsky's Dune". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2-13.

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Height, Matter

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Loneliness, Reality

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

  Parker Stevenson

  Color, California, House

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• One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.

  Napoleon Hill

  Struggle, People, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

  Javier Bardem

  Business, Crazy, Live In The Moment

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• Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

  Meera

  Love, Inspirational, Needs

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• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Luxury, Greed

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• Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Mad, World

  "Wormwood: A Drama of Paris".

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• Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

  Steven Saylor

  Writing, Effort, Promise

  "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love is . . . a madness most discreet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love Is, Discreet

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• I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Religious, Book

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

  Richard Branson

  Names, Enjoy Life, Challenges

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• I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

  Jesse McCartney

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

  Stan Getz

  Kids, Choices, Radio

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