#madness

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#commenting #existence #i #into #like

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#because #behind #cast #film #find

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#i #inspires #kind #madness #people

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#madness #place #sold #tavern #where

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. ↗

— Terence

#ask #better #love #love is #madness

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#hysteria #madness #obsolete #dreams

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #madness #nations #parties

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

#living-things #madness #life

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#insanity #madness #sever #the-chemical-garden-trilogy #vaughn