#madness

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#always #because #life #living #love

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#madness #science #sublimity #taught #us

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#few #gain #madness #many

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#blind #love #madness

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. ↗

— Anne Rice

#before #began #book #curiosity #farm

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely