Best fall & madness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.”

Children Self Fall Drink Future Destruction Madness Cups Empires Self Destruction Tolls Premonition Self Destruct

“People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”

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“In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge”

Men World Age Fall Secret Middle Madness Debate Gods Will Dramatic Beast Marvelous Disputes Middle Ages Renaissance Metamorphosis Clouded Renaissance Man

Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.”

Ifs May Hands Fall Millions Arms Destruction Madness Blessed Unions Raised Lifts Curse Delusion

Author:Andrew Jackson

“It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.”

Fall Cities Destruction Madness Prophecy Great Cities

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.”

Humans Kind War Seems Fall Left Nations Civilization Conscience Madness Anger Down And Angry Mad Population Falling Down Hysteria Forsake

Book:Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

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