998 Quotes About Madness
- Author M.D. Elster
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When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.
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- Author Naguib Mahfouz
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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- Author Grant Morrison
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It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
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- Author Cheryl R Cowtan
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The group’s laughter echoed off the stained, plaster ceiling. I raised my beer, but before I clinked the bottles together, I challenged him. “You think you’re a man I won’t forget?”“Ah’m nae any man ye’ve met before.”“Praise be,” I smirked, “the others haven’t been worth spit.”Then the whiskey came, and I was taken by the tawny light, forgetting to worry about my ‘crazy’. Until Angus’ efforts at gilding my heart, called my ‘alter’ to the fore.
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- Author Kristen Painter
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Death and madness are his only mistresses.
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- Author James Baldwin
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It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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- Author Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Just before genius there is madness. Madness is difficult to get through.दानिशमंदी से पहले पागलपन है। पागलपन से निकलना मुश्किल होता है।
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- Author Simon Brass
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Whither is intelligence? I will tell you. We have killed it – you and I.
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- Author Simon Brass
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Here the professor fell silent and looked again at the camera crew. They, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. In anguish, the professor threw his tiki torch to the ground, where it broke into several pieces and went out. “I have come too early, my time is not yet. They have not realized that intelligence is dead, and yet they have done it themselves.
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