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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Author:
Xenophon
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Author:
Robin Williams
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Author:
Voltaire
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Author:
John Updike
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Author:
John Updike
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A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.
Author:
Gloria Trevi
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Author:
Terence
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Author:
Seneca
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Sanity is madness put to good use.
Author:
George Santayana
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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
Author:
John Russell
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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.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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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 find someone else.
Author:
Gerd Rundstedt
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Author:
Theodore Roethke
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Author:
Anne Rice
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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.
Author:
Erich Remarque
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Author:
Petrarch
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Author:
Isaac Newton
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I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
Author:
Benjamin Netanyahu
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Author:
Marston Morse
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Author:
Ted Morgan
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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.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Author:
Henry Miller
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I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
Author:
Nita Lowey
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I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
Author:
Chris Lowe
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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
Author:
Nigella Lawson
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Author:
R. Laing
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Author:
Nikos Kazantzakis
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We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Author:
Henry James
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So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
Author:
David Icke
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Anger is a short madness.
Author:
Horace
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I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
Author:
George Harrison
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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.
Author:
Graham Greene
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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
Author:
Spalding Gray
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I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
Author:
John Glover
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Author:
Allen Ginsberg
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Author:
Allen Ginsberg
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Author:
Andre Gide
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Author:
Andre Gide
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Author:
Michel Foucault
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Author:
Albrecht Durer
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Author:
Marguerite Duras
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Author:
John Dryden
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Author:
John Dryden
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It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
Author:
Sean Connery
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
Author:
William Congreve
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
Author:
John Carre
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You call it madness, but I call it love.
Author:
Don Byas
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Author:
William Buckley, Jr.
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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Author:
Hermann Broch
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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.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Author:
Nellie Bly
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Author:
Manolo Blahnik
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
Author:
Pedro Barca
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Love that is not madness is not love.
Author:
Pedro Barca
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
Author:
J. Ballard
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Author:
Tom Baker
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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.
Author:
Frank Auerbach
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Author:
Aristotle
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Author:
Aristotle
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Author:
Aristotle
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Author:
Aristotle
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Author:
Anacharsis
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Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Author:
Alcuin
