Madness Quotes
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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We have psychologized like madmen, which increases their madness by trying to understand it.
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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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.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.
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Love is . . . a madness most discreet
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.
