Quotes tagged ‘Madness’

“I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which.”

— John D. Hancock, Lee Kalcheim, imdb.com

“Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't kno…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com

“[laughing to himself] But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com

“[singing] She told me a bit of madness is key To give us new colors to see.”

— Damien Chazelle, Mia Dolan, Emma Stone, imdb.com

“The madness of mercy.”

— George R. R. Martin, Eddard 'Ned' Stark, Sean Bean, imdb.com

“Human beings are the only animal that forms ideas about their world. We perceive it not through our bodies but through our minds. We must agree on what is real. Because of this, we are the only animal on Earth that goes mad.”

— Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern, Narrator, Jon Hamm, imdb.com

“This is madness. I like it.”

— Phil Klemmer, Chris Fedak, Marc Guggenheim, Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com

“The only way to survive a mad world is to embrace the madness.”

— Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson, Victor Strand, Colman Domingo, imdb.com

“Miranda: There is no other way once you're willing to tell the truth about your intentions here! Captain Flint: I think that I have made my intentions very clear. Miranda: No! You've been anything but clear. You say you fight for the sake of Nassau, for the sake of your men, for the sake of Thomas!…”

— Aaron Helbing, Todd Helbing, Miranda Barlow, Louise Barnes, imdb.com

“Did you know that madness sets you free? Otherwise, we’re just peasants obeying the law.”

— Steven Knight, Tatiana Petrovna, Gaite Jansen, imdb.com

“I'm Bogey the Bear, I'm covered with hair!”

— Patrick Hasburgh, 'Howling Mad' Murdock, Dwight Schultz, imdb.com

“Jim, madness has no purpose, or reason, but it may have a goal.”

— Don Ingalls, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“You feed the madness and it feeds on you.”

— Jane Espenson, Rumplestiltskin, Robert Carlyle, imdb.com

“They think I'm crazy, but I know better. It is not I who am crazy. It is I who am MAD! Didn't you hear them? Can't you see the crowds?”

— Jim Gomez, John Kricfalusi, Ren Höek (voice), John Kricfalusi, imdb.com

“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars….I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness....”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“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, amazon.com

“Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.”

— Don Ingalls, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks — some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about…”

— Mark Frost, David Lynch, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com