I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?
This is too much madness to explain in one text.
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.