Wednesday 3 July 2013

Madness - Quotes

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Madness

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

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness. - Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. - Saul Bellow

Madness is an excited mind, indulging in the dreams of imagination, until the heated fancy makes chimeras appear real. - Charles William Day

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. - R. D. Laing

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. - Antonin Artaud

To expect an impossibility is madness. - Marcus Aurelius

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. - Nellie Bly

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