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Madness Quotes (page 22)

Joseph Joubert quote: "There are those to whom one must advise madness."
There are those to whom one must advise madness. Joseph Joubert
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. Robert Anton Wilson
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Doubt? is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to..."
Doubt? is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Gustave Flaubert
Jane Austen quote: "Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! Jane Austen
Jerome K. Jerome quote: "If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a..."
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. Jerome K. Jerome
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and..."
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods! Friedrich Nietzsche
George Byron quote: "If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. George Byron
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey. Leonard Cohen
It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide. Jeanette Winterson
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. Antonin Artaud
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men. When for so slight and frivolous a cause. Such factious emulations shall arise! William Shakespeare
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences. Arthur Rimbaud
It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. Nora Roberts
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost! Peter Shaffer
in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have in our possession the as yet unwroght elements of content - and that, even now, in the present darkness and madness of all thought on the great question of social condition, it is not impossible that man, the individual, under certain unusual and highly fortuitous conditions, my be happy Edgar Allan Poe

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