Quotes with madness

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg
  American poet (1926 - 1997)
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• If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
  Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

  Tapestry (1971)

  Carole King
  American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

  J. G. Ballard
  British author (1930 - 2009)
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• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  J. G. Ballard
  British author (1930 - 2009)
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• In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

  Leo Rosten
  Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

  Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 162

  Jeanette Winterson
  English writer (1959 - )
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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

  Faceboek (2011)

  Louis de Bernieres
  British novelist (1954 - )
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• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

  Michel Foucault
  French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  Ronald Laing
  unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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• Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

  Bono
  Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  Pensées (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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• No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.

  Viktor Korchnoi
  Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• destructiveness
• break-through
• invigorating
• intellectual
• existential
• necessarily

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