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There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing. ~ Norman Rush
Madhouses quotes by Norman Rush
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse. ~ Robert Musil
Madhouses quotes by Robert Musil
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. ~ Charles Bukowski
Madhouses quotes by Charles Bukowski
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I. ~ Einar Mar Gudmundsson
Madhouses quotes by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you. ~ Osho
Madhouses quotes by Osho
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. ~ Oliver Heaviside
Madhouses quotes by Oliver Heaviside
At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact ~ Mohamed Nasheed
Madhouses quotes by Mohamed Nasheed
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts. ~ George Santayana
Madhouses quotes by George Santayana
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. ~ Anna Freud
Madhouses quotes by Anna Freud
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. ~ Leon Trotsky
Madhouses quotes by Leon Trotsky
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. ~ Ernest Becker
Madhouses quotes by Ernest Becker
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. ~ John Astin
Madhouses quotes by John Astin
The existence of the terrible in every particle of the air. You breathe it in as part of something transparent; but within you it precipitates, hardens, acquires angular, geometrical forms in among your organs; for all the torments and horrors suffered at places of execution, in torture chambers, in madhouses, in operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn – all this is possessed of a tenacious permanence, all of it persists and, jealous of all that is, clings to its own frightful reality. People would prefer to be able to forget much of it; sleep files away gently at the grooves in the brain, but dreams drive it away and trace the lines anew. And they wake, panting, and dissolve the gleam of a candle in the dark, and drink in the half-lit solace as if it were sugared water. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Madhouses quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love. ~ John Astin
Madhouses quotes by John Astin
The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe ... primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness ... ~ L. Ron Hubbard
Madhouses quotes by L. Ron Hubbard
All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn - all these are stubbornly imperishable, all these persist, are inaccessible but cling on, envious of everything that is, stuck in their own terrible reality. People would like to be allowed to forget much of it, their sleep gliding softly over these furrows in the brain, but dreams come and push sleep aside and fill the picture again. And so they wake up breathless, let the light of a candle dissolve the darkness as they drink the comforting half-light as if it was sugared water. But, alas, the edge on which this security is balancing is a narrow one. Given the slightest little turn and their gaze slips away from the familiar and the friendly, and the contours that had so recently been comforting take the sharp outlines of an abyss of horror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Madhouses quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Further expanding the already large class of Foucauldian apparatuses, I shall cal an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, determine, intercept, model, control , or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings. Not only, therefore, prisons, madhouses, the panopticon, schools, confession, factories, disciplines, juridical measures, and so forth (whose connection with power is in a certain sense evident), but also the pen, writing, literature, philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, computers, cellular telephones and - why not - language itself, which is perhaps the most ancient of apparatuses - one in which thousands and thousands of years ago a primitive inadvertently let himself be captured, probably without realizing the consequences that he was about to face. ~ Giorgio Agamben
Madhouses quotes by Giorgio Agamben
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Madhouses quotes by Allen Ginsberg
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me. ~ Ben Hecht
Madhouses quotes by Ben Hecht
Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse. ~ Jack Kerouac
Madhouses quotes by Jack Kerouac
Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of 'happy nuts,' There's a tightening around the head that hurts, there's a terror of the mind that hurts even more, they're so unhappy and especially because they can't explain it to anybody. ~ Jack Kerouac
Madhouses quotes by Jack Kerouac
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Madhouses quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat. ~ Trent Jamieson
Madhouses quotes by Trent Jamieson
Oloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy. Moloch whom I abandon. Wake up in Moloch.. Light streaming out of the sky.
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! Invisible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! Blind capitals! Demonic industries! Spectral nations! Invincible madhouses! Granite cocks! Monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven.. Pavements, trees, radios, tons. Lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Madhouses quotes by Allen Ginsberg
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! ~ Leo Tolstoy
Madhouses quotes by Leo Tolstoy
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200) ~ Jack Kerouac
Madhouses quotes by Jack Kerouac
Alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills. ~ Charles Bukowski
Madhouses quotes by Charles Bukowski
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Madhouses quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not. ~ Henepola Gunaratana
Madhouses quotes by Henepola Gunaratana
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave, not be spontaneous; in which a pattern has to be followed, not the overflow of life and energy. That's why the mind thinks and decides everything, because there is danger. ~ Rajneesh
Madhouses quotes by Rajneesh
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Madhouses quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Madhouses quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Madhouses quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
No season lives here. This space has quite successfully shut out any such interference. The cunning designer saw to it that there is not even a mirror in which the reader might contemplate his own appearance or anxiously search for the marks of age. The climate is grammatical. Nothing here but books, as if I were swaddled in them, as if the porous walls of books were by now almost a second skin. Or as if they provided a padding like the walls of madhouses, a cushion constructed of the language of the dead. ~ Geoffrey O'Brien
Madhouses quotes by Geoffrey O'Brien
The only thing in this world is music–music and books and one or two pictures. I am going to found a colony where there shall be no marrying–unless you happen to fall in love with a symphony of Beethoven–no human element at all, except what comes through Art–nothing but ideal peace and endless meditation. The whole of human beings grows too complicated, my only wonder is that we don't fill more madhouses: the insane view of life has much to be said for it–perhaps its the sane one after all: and we, the sad sober respectable citizens really rave every moment of our lives and deserve to be shut up perpetually. My spring melancholy is developing these hot days into summer madness. ~ Virginia Woolf
Madhouses quotes by Virginia Woolf
Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful. ~ Samuel Beckett
Madhouses quotes by Samuel Beckett
It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse. ~ Bobby Fischer
Madhouses quotes by Bobby Fischer
There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them. ~ Caitlin Kittredge
Madhouses quotes by Caitlin Kittredge
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes ~ Charles Bukowski
Madhouses quotes by Charles Bukowski
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Madhouses quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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