Madness Quotes - Page 26

• The religion of one seems madness unto another.

  Thomas Browne

  Statistics, Seems

  Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”

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• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Light, Air, Fire

  Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heaven, Grace, Looks

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• Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

  Luce Irigaray

  Sex, Taken, Leaving

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

  Thomas Sankara

  Yesterday, Fundamentals, Want

  "Sankara: Un nouveau pouvoir africain" by Jean Ziegler, 1986.

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• But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.

  Knut Hamsun

  Fall, Men, Space

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• If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

  Armistead Maupin

  Locks, Way, Ifs

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• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

  Sophocles

  Arrogance, Turns, Grows

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Thinking, Fancy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, Essence, Fulfillment

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.100, Hay House, Inc

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• I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.

  August Kleinzahler

  Guy, Meatballs, Membranes

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• That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Life, Reality, Trying

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• The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

  Trevor Baylis

  Glasses, Together, Inventor

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• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Sex, Sleep, Kissing

  "Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Hot Chip, Blood Orange, Phosphorescent on Arthur Russell Tribute" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Love Is, Insane

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• If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Men, Australia

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• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

  Irving Layton

  Self, Misanthrope, Cowardice

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

  Lydia Davis

  Real, Mad, Darkness

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Nuts, World, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Odds, Worry, Stupidity

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Sanity

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• I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

  Dennis Farina

  Crazy, Mirrors, People

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• Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

  Jenny Holzer

  Sake, Slipping, Comparison

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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