Best 930 quotes in «madness quotes» category

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

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

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.