#madness

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

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

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

— Jean Cocteau

#extreme #limit #madness #public #wisdom

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#away #christ #fall #help #jesus

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#euphoria #grief #kind #madness

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#before #beginning #i #madness #only

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #madness #morality #world #life