“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in… — Hilary Austen Copy Share Image
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Se tudo o resto não me basta por que hei-de impedir o efeito paliativo das benzodiazepinas e a volúpia desta evocação alucinatória?… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Tell me. Why would you consider me insane, but the man who can't hold a job, who cheats on his wife, who… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And now every… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
“You wouldn’t have to be insane to do these things. You’d just have to have a goal and be determined to attain… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Why is Merrick Garland, who is Joe Biden's hand-picked attorney general, able to investigate both the past and potentially future person who… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon… — William Styron Copy Share Image
