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Quotes About Madness

Aquí la locura se repartió entre todos y no sobró nada para tener nuestro propio loco de remate.
~ Isabel Allende
si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.
~ Isabel Allende
Someone like him who thought more about himself than he did his community, had no place in the tribe. Individualism was thought to be a form of madness, like being possessed by a demon.
~ Isabel Allende
Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight.
~ Ishmael Beah
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.
~ Shaun Ryder
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
~ Mark Twain
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
~ Anonymous
A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.
~ George, Lord Halifax
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
~ Oscar Levant
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
~ Aristotle
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
~ French proverb
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.
~ Liev Schreiber
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
~ Ruth Rendell
The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.
~ Maurice Sendak
That's right, I'm crazy. But, I don't ever want to go back to being of sound mind again. I don't think I'll ever be able to. Because as crazy as I may get, I only have eyes for Ju Yoo Rin.
~ Gongchan
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
~ Leonid Brezhnev
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
~ Sam Peckinpah
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
~ Wilfred Owen
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
~ John Boyd Orr