#madness

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain

People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#emotion #insanity #life-of-artist #madness #passion

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#madness #sanity #inspirational

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

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#hide #inner #madness #moonlight #your

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liquors #madness #produce #rum #total

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#culture #madness #perishing #quantity #words

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

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#cannot #carry #certain #change #fundamental

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