Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
– Margaret Atwood
Related Quotes:
- There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness. – Marty Rubin
- When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. – George Ivanovic
- Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. – Rohinton Mistry
- Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? – The Joker – Grant Morrison
- Madness breeds madness. – Dan Brown
- Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon ’em. – Emilie Autumn
- Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. – GK Chesterton
- Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. – GK Chesterton
- You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else – he never dares cut the rope and be free. – Nikos Kazantzakis
- There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood. – Stephen King
- It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward. – Anne Fortier
- Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. – Lynne Truss
- Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond. – Margaret Atwood
- The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
- These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It’s probably a vitamin deficiency. – Margaret Atwood
- Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. – Margaret Atwood
- I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. – Margaret Atwood
- They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves. – Margaret Atwood
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. – Margaret Atwood
- Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex. – Margaret Atwood
- But there’s something missing in them, even the nice ones. It’s like they’re permanently absent-minded, like that can’t quite remember who they are. – Margaret Atwood
- Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo. – Margaret Atwood
- … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
- They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. – Margaret Atwood
- But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
- I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. – Margaret Atwood
- you can’t change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do – Margaret Atwood
- Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. – Margaret Atwood
- It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. – Margaret Atwood
- I used to jog but it’s bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills. – Margaret Atwood
- More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
- I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals. – Margaret Atwood
- I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. – Margaret Atwood
- He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. – Margaret Atwood
- …yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. – Margaret Atwood
- The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one. – Margaret Atwood
- Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
- I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood
- Lose your temper and you lose the fight. – Margaret Atwood
- Perfection exacts a price, but it’s the imperfect who pay it – Margaret Atwood