Wahnsinn / Madness Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Wahnsinn / Madness:

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Napoleon Bonaparte

Anger is a short madness.

Horace

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Thomas Fuller

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Bertrand Russell

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Lupita Nyong'o

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Gloria Trevi

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

Henry Rollins

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Ambrose Bierce

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Georg Brandes

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

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

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Alcuin

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

Ken Marino

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

The Weeknd

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Anne Lamott

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Sextus Propertius

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Sean Connery

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Ted Morgan

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Phillip Lim

Everywhere you turn in New Zealand, there's something exciting to do. It's the gem of the world. It's so far away from the madness, and so you get that element. It was just stunning.

Wes Bentley

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

Federica Montseny

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

John Glover

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Anacharsis

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

Wangechi Mutu

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Theodore Roethke

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Billy Ocean