#madness

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#intelligence #madness #intelligence

Jack's doctors have told him he is crazy… but, the truth is, it's the Voices who are crazy, not him. ↗

— Jennifer Daydreamer

#humorous #madness #dreams

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#free-spirit #free-thought #madness #dreams

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. ↗

— Sean Connery

#cosmopolitan #kind #madness #now

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#believes #get #hysteria #madness #other

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

#beautiful things #madness #most #most beautiful #prompts

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