#madness

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#always #love #madness #reason #some

If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#madness #death

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning

When love is not madness, it is not love. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#love is #madness

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

#i #i think #knew #madness #marriage

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. ↗

— John le Carre

#entered #historic #i #i can #madness

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madness #our #store #vitality

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#extreme #limit #madness #public #wisdom

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#everybody #experiment #fend #find #lab