There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to...

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled....

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

There’s always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there’s always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be...

I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and...

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

March Madness has begun and we are very pleased to have won and advanced. I know this would have been hard for you (the media) to have not characterized it as an upset if we...

ONLY’ having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives…

There’s moisture in my madness. I should start keeping my insanity in Tupperware containers.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that...

Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be...

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

A possible link between ‘madness’ and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.

The popularity of March Madness On Demand is a testament to the significant progress of streaming video over the past few years.

The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the...

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it’s climax.

If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

The two halves of my barely whole being rioted, chained in place and snarling in protest of the other’s presence. The bondage allowed them just close enough to drive each other to venomous rebellion, yet...

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

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

Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn’t prevent it being reality itself....

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I’m not mad yet–not so mad that I don’t know how disastrous it might be to you–to us both! You don’t realize what...

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity....

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren’t we all just a little crazy?

I don’t think I could ever see her closely,” the sentinel replied, “however close she came.” His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. “She has a newness,” he said. “Everything is...

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

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of...

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever...

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

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...

…My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can’t you?

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world...

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? – Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float...

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

I rehearsed Foucault’s argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...