#madness

So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #jessamine #tessa #will #madness

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#madness #madness

Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#madness

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#madness

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#control #madness #momentary #passion #will

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

#either #government #madness #magnitude #organized

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#events #fortune #herself #madness #make

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ↗