Madness Quotes - Page 14

• Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Loss, Stories, Mortality

  Source: collider.com

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• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  Colin Fletcher

  Passion, Addiction, Finals

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.15, Knopf

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• Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

  Allan Bloom

  Age, Blind, Worst

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

  Nick Flynn

  Poet, Manic

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

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• Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Light, Thrones, Sin

  Charles Grandison Finney (1965). “So great salvation: evangelistic messages”

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• The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

  Robin Williams

  Age, Increase

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• [Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids....I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done.

  Johnny Depp

  Goodbye, Mean, Kids

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• ... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, People, Accusation

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Spring, Eye, Ice

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• [Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Kings, Space, Generations

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.440

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• Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, People, Causes

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Diversification

  "Buffett's Wit and Wisdom". www.fool.com. May 3, 2004.

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• If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Writing, Want, Ifs

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• It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

  Dick Vitale

  Sports, Blessed, Years

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• You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

  Kate Winslet

  Quills

  "Fictional character: Madeleine". "Quills", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Danger

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• ...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Voice, Giving

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.172, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

  Richard Davenport-Hines

  Enlightenment, Mistaken

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• Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

  Rupert Everett

  Prerequisites

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• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  Carol O'Connell

  Song, Art, Children

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• My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Definitions, Littles, Complicated

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• A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Intense, Intense Love

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• The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Angel, Demon, Rage

  A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.103, A. A. Attanasio

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• Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.

  Timo Tjahjanto

  Long, Balls, Internet

  Source: collider.com

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