Madness Quotes

• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, America, Citizens

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  J. G. Ballard

  Freedom, World, Sane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Guy, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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!

  James Rollins

  Moving, Mad, Genius

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• And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Drunk, My Own

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• And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Crazy, Eye

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Insanity, Insane

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

  John Harricharan

  Two, Purpose, Success In Life

  John Harricharan (1993). “Morning Has Been All Night Coming”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Felt

  "Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal".

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• When love is not madness, it is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Running, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2014

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• Sanity is madness put to good use.

  George Santayana

  History, Use, Sanity

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.269, Indiana University Press

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  Isaac Newton

  Funny, People, Insanity

  "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

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• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Power, Important Hamlet

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

  William Styron

  Depression, Zero, Psychics

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.25, Open Road Media

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