Madness Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

  Matt Haig

  Bravery, Acts Of Bravery, Can Do

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Suffering, Facts

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1973). “Books in My Baggage: Adventures in Reading and Collecting”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Frustration, Doctors

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• The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

  Jean Lorrain

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Passion, My Passion

  Dorothea Benton Frank (2007). “The Christmas Pearl”

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• Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

  Pope Francis

  War, Lost

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• The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Order

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• The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Soldier, Revolution, Insolence

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.437

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• I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

  Daniel Topolski

  Loyalty, Men, Race

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• When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

  Dave Matthews

  Reflection, Mirrors, Insanity

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

  Sophocles

  Impossible, Astronomy, Cosmology

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• My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Addiction, Intellectual, Faculty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Letters Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

  Fernando Arrabal

  Theatre, Chess

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• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  Eliphas Levi

  Weakness, Vices, Poison

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

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• Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

  Pen Densham

  Cousin, Fear Not, Dear

  Simon R. Green, Pen Densham (1991). “Kevin Costner is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves: a novel”, Berkley

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• Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

  Stephen Stills

  Speaks Out, Speak

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Melancholy

  'To - , 1814'

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• The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

  Peter Milligan

  Real, Scream, States

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