#madness

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. ↗

— Peter Bradley Adams

#music #musician #song #music

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#functions #long #madness #man #protected

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius ↗

— Aberjhani

#gender-equality #genius #giftedness #good-and-evil #madness

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#surreal #surreal

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#breakdown #death #enslavement #existential #liberation