Success can create more madness than happiness.
Billy Ocean
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
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We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
Ishmael Beah
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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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
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It takes madness to find out madness.
Lady Gregory
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
Felix Dennis
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
Matthew James Thomas
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
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There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
Tom Felton
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault
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Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.
Josh Tillman
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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Christopher Buckley
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
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I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.
Preity Zinta
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Sextus Propertius
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Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
Tim Bray
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
Mark Haddon
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
Lenny Abrahamson
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I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.
Greta Gerwig
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