152 quotes found
“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
“Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The mode...”
“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupid...”
“I closed my eyes, adding dark to dark, and the wanting unfurled like the sails of a phantom ship. This could be my universe. This nowhere world, circumscribed by skin and breath, where nothing matt...”
“She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.”
“He had discovered that it was easier – far easier than any one could have supposed – to make oneself mad, but like all magic it was full of obstacles and frustrations. Even if he succeeded in summo...”
“To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.”
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
“How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?”
“Unlike ‘mere’ medical or physical disorders, mental disorders are not just problems. If successfully navigated, they can also present opportunities. Simply acknowledging this can empower people to ...”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
“Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.”
“Madness breeds madness.”
“There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.”
“Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”
“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not.”
