Madness Quotes - Page 38

• Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Mad, Personality

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• Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

  Mary Butts

  Long, Goes On, Voyages

  Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson

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• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

  Mark Lawrence

  Block, Men, Giving

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• Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

  Mark Lawrence

  Memories, Wind, Cocoons

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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• We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

  Peter Thiel

  Our World, Retail, Might

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 3, 2012.

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• The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

  Ernest Becker

  Spring, Real, Creativity

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Love Is, Literature History

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011

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• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Sweet, Inspiration, Greatness

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• Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

  "Liber Novus".

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• So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

  Paul Fussell

  Dream, War, Past

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  Anne Carson

  Desire, And Love

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.35, Vintage

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• Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Beautiful, Creativity, Mean

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• When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

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• All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.

  Paul Shepard

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press

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• I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
  marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
  I never know sadness, but only a madness
  that burns at the heart and the brain.
  I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
  angelic, demonic, divine.
  Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
  that brims with ambrosial wine.

  Jack Parsons

  Heart, Wine, Sadness

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• The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

  Cornell Capa

  Photography, Heart, Eye

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• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

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• The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

  Albert Einstein

  Different, Definitions, Action

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• You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Distraction, Ifs

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• Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Self, Careers

  Twitter post from May 28, 2013

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• People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, People, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

  Caroline Myss

  Faith, Heaven, Mind

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• Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

  Sixto Rodriguez

  Song: Inner City Blues, Album: Cold Fact, 1970

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• The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

  Brad Pitt

  Reflection, Men, Ifs

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