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Madness Quotes

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head Picture Quote #1

To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open Picture Quote #1

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd Picture Quote #1

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish? Picture Quote #1

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth Picture Quote #1

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off Picture Quote #1

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The point is... to live one’s life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world Picture Quote #1

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? Picture Quote #1

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time Picture Quote #1

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness Picture Quote #1

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep Picture Quote #1

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty Picture Quote #1

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Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness? Picture Quote #1

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him Picture Quote #1

It’s what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it Picture Quote #1

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity? Picture Quote #1

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch Picture Quote #1

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences Picture Quote #1

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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears Picture Quote #1

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness Picture Quote #1

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide Picture Quote #1

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? Picture Quote #1

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me? Picture Quote #1

I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth’s spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness Picture Quote #1

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Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy Picture Quote #1

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness Picture Quote #1

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them Picture Quote #1

As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we’re separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare Picture Quote #1

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public Picture Quote #1

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans Picture Quote #1

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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head (Madness Quotes) To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open (Madness Quotes) Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd (Madness Quotes) Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish? (Madness Quotes) All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth (Madness Quotes) Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off (Madness Quotes) The point is... to live one’s life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world (Madness Quotes) Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? (Madness Quotes) Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time (Madness Quotes) The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness (Madness Quotes) Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep (Madness Quotes) If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty (Madness Quotes) Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness? (Madness Quotes) He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him (Madness Quotes) It’s what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it (Madness Quotes) Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity? (Madness Quotes) The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch (Madness Quotes) The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences (Madness Quotes) If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears (Madness Quotes) Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness (Madness Quotes) During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide (Madness Quotes) Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? (Madness Quotes) We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me? (Madness Quotes) I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth’s spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness (Madness Quotes) Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy (Madness Quotes) To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness (Madness Quotes) I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them (Madness Quotes) As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we’re separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare (Madness Quotes) Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public (Madness Quotes) Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans (Madness Quotes)

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