There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Erotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“When life is this dull, you have to invent purpose. Collecting torn-up newspaper gives you a hobby, provides an anchoring intimacy with… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
