Madness Quotes - Page 15

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

  Charles Mackay

  Ignorance, Crowds, Economics

  Charles Mackay (1996). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

  John Webster

  Ambition, Men, Duchess

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.

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• If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

  William Congreve

  Love, Free Love, Ifs

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 3, sc. 10

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Successful, Iraq

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• There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Passion, Heart

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1469, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Two, Should

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• Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Being Wise

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.12

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• In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

  Virgil

  Heart, Sorrow, And Love

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• The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

  Bob Edwards

  Perfect, Different, Littles

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• What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

  Voltaire

  Perception, Reason

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.383

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• It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

  Bob Edwards

  Brain, Mediums, Seems

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• I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, Thinking, People

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• If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

  Voltaire

  Names, Mad, Wish

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• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

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• I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

  Steven Wright

  Mind, Lost, Disk

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• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  Edward Young

  Love, Wine, Giving

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.191

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• Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

  Florence Welch

  Mean, Love Is, Sickness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Momentary

  "Epistularum liber primus (First Book of Letters)". Book by Horace (Epistle 2, line 62), 20 BC.

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Mad, Secret

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• It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

  Franz Schubert

  Laughter, People, World

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• Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Life, Mad, Secret

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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