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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.
Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit