#madness

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

#existed #genius #great #great genius #madness

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ↗

— Seneca

#madness #nothing #voluntary

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#madness #place #sold #tavern #where

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. ↗

— Terence

#ask #better #love #love is #madness

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. ↗

— Marston Morse

#genius #madness #mathematics #same #servant

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#madness #prozac #boredom

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #madness #misery #tessa-gray

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. ↗

— Benjamin Moser

#mathematics #reason #biography

I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that. ↗

— Felisberto Hernández

#imagination

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment