Madness Quotes
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
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My wits begin to turn.
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
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If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.
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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
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The universe without music would be madness.
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... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
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You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.
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I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
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Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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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.
