Madness Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

  Democritus

  Inspiration, Writing, Divinity

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• There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

  Nigella Lawson

  Grief, Degrees, Kind

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

  Georg Brandes

  Doubt, Overcoming, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

  Tom Baker

  Actors, Able, Kind

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• A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

  Gloria Trevi

  Dream, Crazy, People

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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

  Alcuin

  Voice, People, Vox Populi

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

  Federica Montseny

  Years, Democracy, Spain

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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Curiosity, Shops

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• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Thinking, Mad

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• Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Golf, Games, Mad

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

  Graham Swift

  Men, Mad, Littles

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

  Maxine Waters

  Thinking, Doors, Kicking It

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• The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

  Alison Bechdel

  Ethos, Mad, Childhood

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• I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

  Judy Collins

  Years, Mad, Together

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• And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

  Aaron McGruder

  People, Mad, Want

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• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  David Wain

  Tv Shows, Mad, Groups

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• When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Mad, Mind

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