“He who begets something which is alive must dive down into the primeval depths in which the forces of life dwell. And… — Walter Friedrich Otto Copy Share Image
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.… — Louis De Bernieres Copy Share Image
Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
“For all our mutual experience Our separate conclusions are the same Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as sane and insane. That mental health is a continuum, a line on which we all move… — Linda Green Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away;… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man? Edgerton asks me with a pinprick of… — Nick Cutter Copy Share Image
