
Misattributed
Misattributed
Act I
Buchanan Dying (1974)
Diwan Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, quoted in Selections from the Fath al-Bari, p.4
Poetry
“I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.”
Lews Therin, to Rand
The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
Hostile Propaganda: Contempt for diplomacy with Russia is now extreme (16 July 2018)
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, p. 75
Poetry, Rendezvous
He was running his hand into his breeches pocket, apparently to take out his knife, but I...drew up my right leg, armed with a new and sharp-edged gallashe over my boot, dealt Mr. Ellice's ripping Savage so delightful a blow, just between his two eyes, that he fell back upon his followers.
‘History of the Coventry Election’, Political Register (25 March 1820), pp. 102–3
1820s
"A Statement Against the War in Vietnam" an address at the University of Kentucky (10 February 1968) http://books.google.com/books?id=-hHNuLumg8wC&pg=PA68
The Long-Legged House (1969)
“To be mad is to keep repeating something that has already been seen as useless, as worthless.”
Misattributed
On focusing on her readership in “Elif Shafak: ‘I thought the British were calm about politics. Not any longer’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/16/elif-shalak-i-thought-the-british-were-calm-about-politics-booker-prize-shortlist in The Guardian (2019 Sep 16)
Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 94
Trilogy, pt.1
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“People get really mad when you don't let them use you.”
Source: https://twitter.com/canlubochris/status/1239121399731458048 | Christian Canlubo personal Twitter account
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)
"Of Love" as translated in The Infinite in Giordano Bruno : With a Translation of His Dialogue, Concerning the Cause, Principle, and One (1978) by Sidney Thomas Greenburg, p. 89
Variant translation:
<p>Cause, Principle and One, the Sempiterne,
On whom all being, motion, life, depend.
From whom, in length, breadth, depth, their paths extend
As far as heaven, earth, hell their faces turn :
With sense, with mind, with reason, I discern
That not, rule, reckoning, may not comprehend
That power and bulk and multitude which tend
Beyond all lower, middle, and superne.</p><p> Blind error, ruthless time, ungentle doom,
Deaf envy, villain madness, zeal unwise,
Hard heart, unholy craft, bold deeds begun,
Shall never fill for one the air with gloom,
Or ever thrust a veil before these eyes,
Or ever hide from me my glorious sun.</p>
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
“I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide.”
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Source: Essays and Addresses, Vol. III- Evolution and Occultism (1913)
“Madness, as you know, is like gravity, all it takes is a little push.”
Character Joker
“An excellent relationship is pure madness to live in two.”
Original: (it) Un'ottima relazione è pura follia da vivere in due.
Source: prevale.net
“Life is the code of madness, endless combinations of risky actions.”
Original: (it) La vita è il codice della follia, infinite combinazioni di rischiose azioni.
Source: prevale.net
“Madness is the genius’ substitute for stupidity.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
et Misères des courtisanes (The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans) (1837-1847), part IV. La dernière Incarnation de Vautrin (The Last Incarnation of Vautrin) https://books.google.ca/books?id=ajtOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Splendeurs+et+Mis%C3%A8res+des+Coutisanes+Sc%C3%A8nes+de+la+Vie+parisienne&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq69XJuJTvAhXrMlkFHcxvDVgQ6AEwCHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&f=falseSplendeurs, "Le Préau de la Conciergerie" ("The Courtyard of the Conciergerie") (chapter title).
Original: (fr) Le crime et la folie ont quelque similitude. Voir les prisonniers de la Conciergerie au préau, ou voir des fous dans le jardin d'une maison de santé, c'est une même chose. Les uns et les autres se promènent en s'évitant, se jettent des regards au moins siguliers, atroces, selon leurs pensées du moment, jamais gais ni sérieux ; car ils se connaissent ou ils se craignent. L'attente d'une condamnation, les remords, les anxiétés donnent aux promeneurs du préau l'air inquiet et hagard des fous. Les criminels consommés ont seuls une assurance qui ressemble à la tranquillité d'une vie honnête, à la sincérité d'une conscience pure.
“To be a poet is to dive into the madness of poetry and penetrate deeply into the realm of words…”
“The stink of madness is unsubtle here. Let us be going.”
Prologue, “The Tower of Baybhelu”(p. 36)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)
“Dare to call it madness only if you felt part of it.”
Original: (it) Abbiate il coraggio di chiamarla follia solo se vi sentiste parte di essa.
Source: prevale.net
“You are the occurrence of my life, you know how to be my most overwhelming madness.”
Original: (it) Tu, sei l'occorrenza della mia vita, sai essere la mia più travolgente follia.
Source: prevale.net
Denver’s “Clone Wars,” “Phineas and Ferb” voice actor on working (from home) through a pandemic https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/21/dee-bradley-baker-interview/243747/ (August 21, 2020)
Aldous Huxley, The Devils of London Chatto & Windus, London, (1951) p. 274
Dove sarà mai la luce promessa? C’è forse un paradiso tra le nuvole, riposo nel vento, ristoro nei fondali marini? Dove finisce il buio, l’insonnia, la pazzia, il pianto, la malattia, la morte? Dove si nasconde Dio?
FROM: Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp. 71-72. ISBN 978-1443828444
On preferring collaboration rather than rivalry in “'When a woman raps, she spitting!' Megan Thee Stallion, the hot girl taking over hip-hop” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/megan-thee-stallion-hot-girl-taking-over-hip-hop-interview in The Guardian (2020 May 8)
“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”
No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“Mind working is man, mind working fast is mad, mind slowed down is Mast and mind stopped is God.”
General sources
Original: (it) Siate sempre coerenti conservando in voi quella scintilla di sana follia, che rende vitale la vostra anima.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Succouring the Poor https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/succouring-poor-john-derbyshire/, National Review, February 6, 2012.
Michel Henry, Barbarism, Continuum, 2012, p. 52
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Barbarism (1987)
"Ooh, Baby" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Ooh, Baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsVmA742FE (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics
“Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Tree’s Wife (p. 78)
Source: Chile – Cardinal Ezzati: Reparation Eucharist https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/1167-chile-cardinal-ezzati-reparation-eucharist-at-gratitud-nacionain-this-l (13 June 2016)
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 36, “Four Long Arms, Whirling” (p. 301)
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
“Normality is a boring uniformity, madness a lively uniqueness.”
Original: La normalità è una noiosa uniformità, la follia una vivace unicità.
Source: prevale.net
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 3 Febr. 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 576), p 25
1880s, 1889
“Madness is one of the main resources for accomplishing genious feats.”
Original: La follia è una delle principali risorse per compiere geniali imprese.
Source: prevale.net