Madness Quotes
Lines that treat losing control as sometimes necessary.
Madness moves through several registers in this set: a gentle warning that grieving too long can harm the living more than honour the dead, a photographer describing a chaotic city style achieved through cropping and blurring, and an old idea that love, if it's madness, is at least forgivable madness. For more on courage, see Courage.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you...
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'
What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
