Top 1200 Madness And Insanity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I would never tie in creative with a talent's contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.