Equinox Quote by Michel Foucault

“I closed my eyes, adding dark to dark, and the wanting unfurled like the sails of a phantom ship. This could be my universe.…

— Alexis Hall

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye…

— Emily Dickinson

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

— William S. Burroughs

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome…

— Anonymous

Madness, and then illumination.

— Orson Scott Card

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was…

— Michel Foucault

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned…

— Theodore Roethke

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand…

— Marguerite Duras

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra