Madness Quotes - page 7

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness. (Javier Marías)
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. View quote
Deb Caletti
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness? View quote
E. Lockhart
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence! View quote
Georgette Heyer
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. View quote
Ben Okri
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. View quote
Joanne Harris
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible! View quote
James Rollins
To remember everything is a form of madness. View quote
Brian Friel
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. (Manolo Blahnik)
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy. View quote
Luke Davies
The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it? View quote
Alice Eve
Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated. View quote
Luce Irigaray
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women. View quote
Alison Goodman
Success can create more madness than happiness. View quote
Billy Ocean
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness. View quote
Creed Bratton
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. View quote
Federica Montseny
You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it. (John Simm)
Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl. View quote
Ken Marino
When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. View quote
Matt Reeves
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures. View quote
Rick Bass
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker. View quote
Ronnie O'Sullivan