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madness

Madness is the state of being mad or insane.

madness

(= lunacy) obsolete terms for legal insanity unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm poetry is a sort of divine madness (= fury, rage) a feeling of intense anger hell hath no fury like a woman scorned his face turned red with rage (= folly, foolishness) the quality of being rash and foolish trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness (= rabies) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

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Simple sentences

He who lives without madness is not as wise as he thinks.
Let's stop this madness.
It's the height of madness to say so.
Genius is but one remove from madness.
It would be madness to climb that mountain in winter.
The thin line between sanity and madness has gotten finer.
If this is madness, there is method in it.
Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Schopenhauer regarded madness as the possibility of enduring pain, as a form of escape from a tragic event.
Love is a kind of madness.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Anger is a form of madness.
Delirium of one person is called madness. Delirium of thousands of people is called religion.
This is madness.
Staring in the smudged mirror, he was not certain if his affliction was loneliness or madness.
And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit; for, in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.
Pride tends to develop into hubris, which is close kin to madness.
It's sheer madness.
We must do something to stop this madness.
When will there be an end to this madness?

Movie subtitles

A potion of madness.
The witch madness, like a spiritual plague, ravages wherever these judges go.
What madness overtook you?
Your health will be ruined if you persist in this madness.
This is madness!
In his madness he threatens to kill me.
Madness came.
Apparently it was the horror of that experience that overpowered this phenomenal mind, which for so long had straddled the fine line between genius and madness, and literally deranged it.
This Is Suzuki St. Pierre With More Meade Madness.
You've driven me near madness with your peering through the keyholes and gaping through the curtains.
He'd never touch a thing with madness.
Desist this madness! Be quiet!
Put aside this madness and it will be forgotten. I give you my word. It's too late.
Then is there no way of saving our children from this madness?
In vain she was telling herself, that it would be madness.
It's midsummer madness.
He also says that the drug gradually induces madness.
This may be madness to you, Harvey Clemp, but it's baloney to me.
Give up this madness, or we'll all be murdered.
What madness.
When will this madness end, my enemy friend?
What madness there is, what blindness, what unintelligent leadership.
Then maybe they won't harm us. -Madness!
It is madness for you to say it's not my wife's.
Where are the times when I am driven to madness by a man? That's what I wonder.
This persecution madness is no good.
Madness. - Shut up!
Lady, lady, this is madness!
The madness of men.
Back of his madness, there was something simple, good.
Being madly in love with a pretty woman is no uncommon madness.
I hope he got over his madness?
A kind of madness.

News and current affairs

During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.
This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.
So how can we stop this madness?
If we allow this madness to continue, the eventual use of these instruments of terror seems all but inevitable.
So long as these weapons exist, the threat of their use - either by accident or through an act of sheer madness - will remain.
But such a world will be possible only if people everywhere rise up and challenge the nuclear madness.
But this economic madness cannot continue forever.
So threatening to attack the world's most powerful country would seem like an act of madness.
And, beyond a certain point, it is also economic madness.
Moreover, the madness of war has been clearly demonstrated to all, and, once the current fighting is over, both sides are now more likely to be cautious about actions that might push their peoples and countries into war once more.
Similarly, the claim that we are headed toward an inevitable clash of civilizations is sheer madness, propounded by people who think the worst of other groups but don't really know them through personal contact or shared experience.
Yet North Korea's world-defying belligerency is not utter madness.
It was nationalism that legitimated mobility; the two of them together that produced madness; and the new mental disease that expressed itself in suicide and irrational violence.
That is why the addition of madness to the roster of familiar mental illnesses coincided with the emergence of nationalism.
Le Bon believed that crowds need strong leaders, to distance them from their natural madness and transform them into civilizations of splendor, vigor, and brilliance.
So no one was struggling more than they had been in the run-up to the subprime madness, which came in the early 2000's.
Why, then, do we follow the fundamentalists to the very heart of their madness?
Then the madness of the Cultural Revolution, when millions suffered terribly, many died, and many more behaved disgracefully as Mao sought to destroy those who had rescued China from his earlier follies.
WASHINGTON - At the beginning of last year, Kenya seemed to be descending into madness.
In a single instant of unfathomable fury, his moment of glory was transformed into one of madness and a curse.

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