Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

— Sylvia Plath

“a fully flowered narcissist.”

— Russell Banks

“Sahib, a bamboo doesn’t flower, but usually when it does it dies. So I am metaphorical to this plant. Last night, I flowered. In…

— Ranjani Ramachandran

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen,…

— Daniel Keyes

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

— Laurie R. King

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding…

— Brent Weeks

“One person's strange is another person's normal.”

— Dani Harper

“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.”

— Frances Hardinge

“No man is normal without a tinge of madness in him! Madness in a person is a sign of intelligence, whoever they are. A…

— Fahad Basheer

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

— Aldous Huxley

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

— William Shakespeare

“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

— Ernest Becker

“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so…

— Stefan Zweig

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we…

— Krishna Das