Top 100 The Madness Quotes
#1. I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.
Jennifer Donnelly
#2. To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
Ben Okri
#3. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
#4. But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.
J. Limbu
#5. 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
#6. And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.
Rae La Rae
#7. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
#8. I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth
Edward M. Peters
#9. Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.
Jon Ronson
#11. Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
Alison Goodman
#12. What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.
Clarice Lispector
#13. It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
H.G.Wells
#14. A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
#16. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
#17. To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
David Hume
#18. Zurich in 1915, ... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.
Hans Arp
#19. Faced with her mother's mood swings, Charlotte is docile.
She tames her melancholy.
Is this how one becomes an artist?
By growing accustomed to the madness of others?
David Foenkinos
#21. With her waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the firmness of her breasts, her habit of tenderness, but she kept the madness of her heart intact.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#22. The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.
Marya Hornbacher
#23. I suddenly realized that all these women were spending months of loneliness and womanliness together, chatting about the madness of the men.
Jack Kerouac
#24. The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.
A.A. Attanasio
#25. Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.
Thomas Ligotti
#26. I dance - to ease the madness, to subdue the longing, to breathe life into my dreams.
Cheri Bauer
#27. No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love]
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Hozier
#28. Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
Tim Bray
#29. What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
Dory Previn
#30. Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
Allen Ginsberg
#31. How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours ...
Kate Millett
#32. I am in the zone, the perfect balance between manic and drunk, I am mellow, I'm cool, cool as cats. I've found the answer, the thing that takes the edge off, smoothes out the madness, sends me sailing, lifts me up and lets me fly.
Marya Hornbacher
#33. One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.
Fay Weldon
#34. But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist.
Howard Jacobson
#35. The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.
Eckhart Tolle
#36. A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")
Ray Bradbury
#37. I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.
Gregory David Roberts
#39. Whatever such rites entailed, the madness of Dionysus was widely accepted as a religious practice. Indeed, it was one of the few ways women were able to obtain a measure of freedom in an otherwise limited public sphere. Was
Elizabeth Blackwell
#40. Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
Jennifer Donnelly
#41. Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.
Ian Rankin
#42. We can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West's but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.
J.M. Coetzee
#43. I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
Narendra Modi
#44. The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My
Rhiannon Frater
#46. Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke
#47. All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.
Hannah Mary Rothschild
#48. 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
#49. I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
#50. Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
#51. If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses
C. G. Jung
#53. Don't follow me into the madness of the world, just accompany me within my own!"
~Kateland Black-2011~
Kateland Black
#54. 'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Mithun Chakraborty
#55. My work embodies little visions of the great intangible ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.
Marsden Hartley
#56. Me and Nkiruka, we watched through the window until the moon grew an extraordinary size, so big that it filled the window frame. We could see the face of the man in the moon, so close that we could see the madness in his eyes.
Chris Cleave
#57. Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!
George Crabbe
#58. From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.
R.D. Laing
#59. You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
Whitney Houston
#60. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!
Bryan Kest
#61. There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.
Herman Melville
#62. The madness of love is a great motivator of new ideas.
Jeffrey Perren
#64. I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.
Lori Goldstein
#65. You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.
A.G. Howard
#66. The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.
David B. Lentz
#67. I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." - Sir Isaac Newton
Anonymous
#68. The flock mirror the madness of their liege.
Poppet
#69. There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.
Khloe Kardashian
#70. I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
Edgar Allan Poe
#71. The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through ... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.
Jonathan Franzen
#72. Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
Matthew James Thomas
#73. Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Mike Wilson
#74. Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.
Peter Geye
#75. Insane people are only sane people who give in to the madness in the world.
Cameron Jace
#76. The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness.
Hanif Kureishi
#77. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#79. I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
Philippe Petit
#80. There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.
Santosh Kalwar
#81. Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
Will Self
#82. After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
Albert Camus
#83. Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Democritus
#84. ..you should write. It's better than succumbing to the madness of the world... And cheaper than pills
David Arnold
#85. The madness of love can always be suspended
to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
Mason Cooley
#86. There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
Jane Austen
#87. For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
Herman Melville
#88. All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.
Paul Gibbons
#89. If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.
Jo Coudert
#90. Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
Stephen Stills
#91. Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.
Morgan Rhodes
#92. People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#95. Find the humor in the madness to find the happiness in the sadness.
Me
#97. How does these things happen? How do we go mad in small ways and calmly work the madness into our everyday little exercises...?
Little by little...
Jonathan Carroll
#98. He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him ...
Abraham Verghese
#99. Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams.
Jessica Kristie
#100. The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness or fortress of prudence all over the land.
Patrick Hamilton
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