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Quotes About Madness

when god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish
~ Paulo Coelho
The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.
~ Paulo Coelho
This is what I wanted. If I believe I will win then victory will believe in me. No life is complete without a touch of madness, or to use J.'s words. What I need to do is reconquer my kingdom. If I can understand what's going on in the world, I can understand what's going on inside myself.
~ Paulo Coelho
And all of us, one way or another, are insane.
~ Paulo Coelho
Las personas luchan para salir, no para entrar en coma. Las personas luchan para vivir y no para cometer suicidio... Que es un loco?... La locura es la incapacidad de comunicar las propias ideas...Todos nosotros de una forma u otra, somos locos. Pero la gran locura del hombre y de la mujer es exactamente esta: el amor.
~ Unknown
Because what looks like crazy on an ordinary day can look like love howling if you see it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
Mi loca, pensó. Mi inevitable loca, mi inolvidable loca. Mi imposible loca, afirmó leve mirando el perfil hermosamente verde azulado por un reflejo de pleamar.
~ Unknown
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
~ Jonathan Swift
Anger is a brief madness.
~ Horace
Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
~ Horace
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
~ Seneca the Younger
To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
~ Charles Bukowski
You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.
~ Allie Gonino
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
~ Anne Rice
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
~ Edward Abbey
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
~ Jean Dubuffet
Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.
~ Melissa Marr
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....
~ Emily Dickinson
Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.
~ Nikki Rowe
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
~ Unknown
Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.
~ Young-Ha Kim
When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?
~ Hiroko Sakai