Madness Quotes - Page 37

• Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Pain, Light, Darkness

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• Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.

  Elsa Morante

  Intelligent, Men, Giving

  Elsa Morante (1977). “History: A Novel”, Knopf

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• I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Money, Crazy, House

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

  Guy Picciotto

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

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• I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

  David Prowse

  Smile, Mad, Laughing

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• And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Laughter, Laughing, Woe

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.22

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

  Jessica Lynch

  Crazy, War, Ideas

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• So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
  There's vultures and thieves at your back
  The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
  That you make up for all that you lack.
  It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
  It's easier to believe
  In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
  That brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Sweet, Lying

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• Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Crazy, Play, Theatre

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• Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

  Bennett Cerf

  Crazy, Fame

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• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Genius And Madness

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• Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

  Willa Cather

  Falling In Love, Real, Mean

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• The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

  Avicenna

  Insanity, Different

  The Canon Bk IV

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• A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Hands, Insanity

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• I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Thinking, Mad

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Believe In Me

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• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

  Kit Williams

  Later In Life, Calling, Distraction

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

  Nick Flynn

  Creativity, Thinking, Average

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

  Norman O. Brown

  Mad, Way, Resisting

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