Quotes tagged ‘Madness’

(71 total)

“There is not much difference between madness and devotion.”

— Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner, Ghost Girl, imdb.com

“Could only have been painted by a madman.”

“Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

“When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.”

— Alan Moore, amazon.com

“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”

— Magdalena Abakanowicz, lc.edu

“A possible link between madness and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions; it is also one of the most controversial.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison, amazon.com

“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”

— Claude Monet, goodreads.com

“Why do I write. Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness.”

— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

— Salvador Dalí, amotlpaa.org

“People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.”

— Elvis Presley, amazon.com

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet.”

— Robert Browning, amazon.com

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”

— Allen Ginsberg, ginsbergblog.blogspot.com

“There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.”

— Charles Manson, amazon.com

“The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free.”

— Charles Manson, amazon.com

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

— Charles Bukowski, goodreads.com

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me—I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, star…”

— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jim Carey, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com

“'Have I gone mad?' 'I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.’”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com