Madness Quotes - page 23

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. (Jeanette Winterson)
But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you? View quote
Sarah Waters
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. View quote
George Santayana
Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion. View quote
Jane Yolen
No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? View quote
Susanna Kaysen
I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he. View quote
Will Self
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future. (Will Self)
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. View quote
Will Self
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
I learned to pay attention to the readers and not to the madness...Because to be a writer in Turkey is a bit like being kissed on one cheek and slapped on the other. View quote
Elif Shafak
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. View quote
Damon Albarn
But history shows repeatedly the madness of crowds and the irrationality of majorities. The only conceivable merit relating to majority rule lies in the fact that if we obtain monopoly decisions by this process, we will coerce fewer persons than if we permit the minority to coerce the majority. But implicit in all political voting is the necessity to coerce some so that all are controlled. View quote
Robert LeFevre
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. View quote
Anne Lamott
Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith. View quote
Leigh Brackett
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. (Avril Lavigne)
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house. View quote
William H. Gass
There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. View quote
Philip Sidney