Madness Quotes
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Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.
Elana Dykewomon
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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
Joseph O'Neill
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Lord Byron
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Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
Albert Camus
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The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
Gail Caldwell
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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
August Strindberg
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Douglas Jerrold
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Madness happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book Speaking Freely: A Memoir - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.
Nat Hentoff
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The universe without music would be madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene--
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own!
Emily Dickinson
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
Will Self
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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
Plato
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There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.
Leo Christopher
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
Catherynne M. Valente
