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Tag Name "Madness" (913)

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Anger is a short madness.
Horace
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When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.
Michel Foucault
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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
William Saroyan
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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
William Shakespeare
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Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
Alan Moore
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Like madness, is the glory of this life.
William Shakespeare
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The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.
Dennis Hopper
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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.
William Shakespeare
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My wits begin to turn.
William Shakespeare
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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain de Botton
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford
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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
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
William Wordsworth
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As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
Willie Nelson
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
Alice Walker
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History is the same thing over and over again.
Woody Allen
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Greatness and madness are next door neighbours and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.
Joe Rogan
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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.
Philip K. Dick
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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
Antonin Artaud
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I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
Clarice Lispector
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
Louis de Bernieres
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If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.
Paulo Coelho
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
Abraham Verghese
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