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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.

Quotes by Xenophon

The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.

Quotes by William Klein

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Quotes by William Congreve

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Quotes by Tom Baker

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Quotes by Tim Bray

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

Quotes by Thomas Sankara

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and 'March Madness' are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

Quotes by Thomas Hauser

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Quotes by Theodore Roethke

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.

Quotes by Ted Morgan

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.

Quotes by Steve Erickson

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Quotes by Sextus Propertius

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Quotes by Seneca

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Quotes by Sean Connery

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

Quotes by Ryan Kwanten

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

Quotes by Ryan Kwanten

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Quotes by Rosa Parks

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Quotes by Robin Williams

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Quotes by Rick Bass

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.

Quotes by R. D. Laing

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Quotes by Phillip Lim

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Quotes by Petrarch

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Quotes by Otto Weininger

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Quotes by Nigella Lawson

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.

Quotes by Neel Mukherjee

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Quotes by Nancy Willard

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

Quotes by Mithun Chakraborty

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Quotes by Max von Sydow

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

Quotes by Matthew James Thomas

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

Quotes by Matt Reeves

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Quotes by Marston Morse

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Quotes by Mario Van Peebles

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.

Quotes by Marguerite Duras

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Quotes by Manolo Blahnik

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

Quotes by Mal Peet

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

Quotes by Luke Harding

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It takes madness to find out madness.

Quotes by Lady Gregory

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

Quotes by Kit Harington

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.

Quotes by Ken Bruen

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Quotes by John Updike

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Quotes by John Russell

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Quotes by John Glover

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

Quotes by James Frain

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

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

Quotes by Italo Calvino

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

Quotes by Ishmael Beah

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Quotes by Isaac Newton

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

Quotes by Ioan Gruffudd

I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called 'crazy,' and we are painted with such broad strokes because it's so easy to stereotype women and write them off. I got tired of that, and I wanted to explain: We are not crazy. There's a method to our madness.

Quotes by Iliza Shlesinger

Anger is a short madness.

Quotes by Horace

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Quotes by Hermann Broch

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Quotes by Henry Miller

Getting mad only leads to madness.

Quotes by Greg Gutfeld

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.

Quotes by Graham Greene

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Quotes by Gloria Trevi

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.

Quotes by Gerd von Rundstedt

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.

Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Quotes by George Harrison

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.

Quotes by Georg Brandes

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.

Quotes by Frank Auerbach

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.

Quotes by Federica Montseny

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

Quotes by Erin Heatherton

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.

Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

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.'

Quotes by Douglas Hodge

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.

Quotes by Dory Previn

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

Quotes by David Icke

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.

Quotes by Damon Albarn

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

Quotes by Creed Bratton

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Quotes by Christopher Morley

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Quotes by Chris Lowe

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Quotes by Camille Paglia

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Quotes by Bryan Fuller

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Quotes by Billy Ocean

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.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Quotes by Basil Bunting

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Quotes by Avril Lavigne

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Quotes by Anne Rice

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Quotes by Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Quotes by Andre Gide

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Quotes by Anacharsis

I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

Quotes by Amrita Acharia

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.

Quotes by Amala Akkineni

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

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