Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung 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
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A demon seduced an angel in the middle of the night and they gave the stars a glimpse. There was nothing casual… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself. You can only stand outside it as a woman… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“What is madness?” she asked, sitting with one leg up against her chest, vaporous skirt flickering around her calves and vanishing into… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel… — Tom King Copy Share Image
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people… — Noel Redding Copy Share Image
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“ Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Here’s all you need to know about crazy: Crazy’s favorite shape is a circle. Broken records, crazy urges on a loop. … — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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