Quotes About Madness

If you accuse me of superstition, then you should call what he has rolling around his head madness. He'll end up in prison or as a writer, which is just as bad – a prisoner of his own stories.

'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

Anti-Semitism being what it is—a continuously mutating virus, an incurable form of madness

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Time will become as famous as place. There will be time-tourists sitting around saying, "Yeah, but have you ever been to April fourth? Man!" My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.

My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.

It made him feel old, as if he'd outlived the very climate of his life, and it made him feel mad, and it made him feel tired.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

DoÄŸuÅŸtan bir yeteneÄŸin varsa ya da doÄŸuÅŸtan iyiliÄŸe eÄŸilimin varsa... Sonunda akl?n? kaç?r?yorsun.

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

The madder the battle, the saner the peace.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. Madness is the most shining way.

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

Le monde est l'Å"uvre d'un Dieu en délire.

AMBITION – Always preceded by "mad" when it lacks nobility.

Thou, thou hast no pity save for thine own misery. It is like a remorse that gnaws thee, a savage madness that impels thee to repel the caress of a dog or to frown upon the smile of a child.