M Quotes
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“Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.”
“Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved—or not quite evolved enough—to bear the awful burden of its own existence.”
Source: The Final Descent
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
“Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.”
Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
sources.”
“Madness is believing that two people who have not been able to get along well together can break up nicely.”
“Madness is blackness.”
“Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.”
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”
“Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.”
Source: The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...
“Madness is deep distress.”
“Madness is depressing illusion.”
“Madness is forever! We even smell different, our hearts don’t beat, they tick, our eyes are different, we don’t just see, we also pick up vibes. We are probably dehumanised and way past our ‘sell by’ date, totally unusable, bitter as lemons.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”
“Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.”
“Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.”
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to wear, no ready-made food to eat, no cozy shelter to take rest in and no future to plan about. Only the ‘present’ was present with a struggle to survive. But, the only difference between a ‘primitive man’ and a ‘mad man’ is that the former had a ‘reasonable’ mind with some unreasonable traits and the latter has an ‘unreasonable’ mind with many unreasonable and possibly some reasonable traits!”
“Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it...”
“Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.”
Source: Hiroshima Mon Amour
“Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.”
Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”
“Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.”
“Madness is no excuse for bad manners or wasted tea.”
Source: Vanity in Dust
“Madness is no madness when shared.”
Source: The Individualized Society
“Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.”
“Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.”
“Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds.”
Source: Maurice
“Madness is not to be despised or feared, but understood”
“Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.”
“Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.”
Source: Cross Creek
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
Source: Surfacing
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Madness is sumptuous; Hate, ascetic.”
“Madness is surprisingly freeing.”
“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931
“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.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
Source: Arabian Nights and Days
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.”
“Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.”
“Madness is the first sign of sanity.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.”
“Madness is the glory of this life”
Source: Timon of Athens
“Madness is the key. Elijah laughed at the frenzied priests of Baal because he knew with prophetic certainty that they were mad; the hooligan boys who laughed at Elisha did so because they thought he – and his God – were mad. High priests, soldiers, crowds and thieves laughed at Christ during his trial and passion, sure that the wretched fellow was mad: he had insane delusions about rebuilding the Temple in three days and being the Son of God (just as today cartoonists may sketch a madman as someone who believes he is Napoleon).”
Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross
“Madness is the only route towards genius.”
Source: Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud
“Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.”
“Madness is the state of mind when you believe there is only one perspective and that is your perspective.”
Source: Quantraz
“Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting,too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.”
“Madness is when people don't put "normal" in quotation marks”