William Golding Quotes

Worse than madness. Sanity.

William Golding

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• Writing is a form of licensed madness.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Madness
  • Licensed

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Man
  • Army
  • Madness

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Madness

• Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Alcohol
  • Illusion
  • Sanity

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Madness

• Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Passion
  • Doe

• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sanity
  • Permanent
  • Neurosis

• Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Luck

• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Society
  • Sanity
  • Eccentricity

• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Madness
  • Knives
  • Indulge

• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Desire
  • Water
  • Pleasure

• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Perfection

• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Death
  • Joy

• I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dance
  • Laughter
  • Spirit Of Gravity

• No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mistake
  • Blessing
  • Circumstance

• Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...

  

  Andreas Libavius
  • Person
  • Opens
  • Artery

• Worse than madness. Sanity.

  

  William Golding
  • Madness
  • Sanity