Quotes with madness

  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
  • No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
  • Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
  • It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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  • Horace Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Allen Ginsberg Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • John Updike A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Horace Anger is short madness
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Basil Bunting Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Seneca Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carl Sagan Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • David Cronenberg Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Rohinton Mistry Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • John Updike Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Lord George Byron Hatred is the madness of the heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Albrecht Durer Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Alexander Pope I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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