#madness

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. ↗

— Jessie Douglas Kerruish

#war #wwi #dreams

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#calculate #heavenly #heavenly bodies #i #i can

It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn’t mind for he was loving her. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#love #love-at-first-sight #love-is #love-is-beautiful #love-is-blind

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#madness #universe #life

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

— Robin Williams

#little #lose #madness #mustn #only

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#grief #life #love #madness #mortality

I was the apprentice of Robert James Bakker. I'm sure you've heard of him. I am a sorcerer. I was there when Bakker died. We... made it happen. I too have met death, and did not have to peel the bones away from my chest to survive the encounter. I am also, and incidentally, the Midnight Mayor, the blue electric angels, the fire in the wire, the song in the telephones, and we are having a bad week. Be smart; fear us. ↗

— Kate Griffin

#matthew-swift #the-midnight-mayor #the-neon-court #death

…excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. ↗

— William Blake

#enthusiasm #inspiration #intellectual #madness #inspirational

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality") ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#immortality #madness #intelligence

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fear #madness #saintliness #surrender #true-love