Madness Quotes - Page 27

• Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

  Philip Sidney

  Said

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

  Propertius

  Love, Blind

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• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

  Marilyn

  Thinking, Imperfection, Genius

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• The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Crazy, Apples, Ordinary

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• Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mind, Body, Should

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.209

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• I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

  Michelle Wie

  Sports, Crazy, Psychology

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• Success can create more madness than happiness.

  Billy Ocean

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• I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Crazy, Cruise, Crisis

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• The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

  William Klein

  Photography, New York, Lying

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• The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Wise, Thinking, Firsts

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

  John Moffitt

  Thinking, Risk, Body

  "John Moffitt was unhappy, quits NFL". www.espn.com. November 7, 2013.

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• I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

  Max Weinberg

  Crazy, Nice, Kids

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• We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

  Mike Rutherford

  Eye, Railroads, Speed

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• I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Crazy, Guy, Bird

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• I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

  Phillip Lim

  Heart, Classicists, Bits

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• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  Pierre Charron

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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• As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hate, Europe, Circles

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Faces

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• But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.

  David Farland

  Gone

  David Farland (2007). “Wizardborn: Book Three of 'The Runelords'”, p.92, Macmillan

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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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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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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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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in religion that assures you God hates you for all of that - and then look me in the eye and tell me you can feel ok about yourself. I dare you. I just dare you.

  Ken Wilber

  Hate, Eye, Gay

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